Agent to the Rescue (Special Agents At The Alter Book 3) by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460388204
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2015-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Dalton had figured there was a fiancé—either dead or alive and trying to kill her. He hadn’t figured that she had a baby. How could she have forgotten a baby?

“I’ll explain...what I remember,” Elizabeth promised, “after I get her down for her nap.” She carried the little girl toward a wide oak staircase leading to the second story.

He nearly reached out to stop her. But a gray-haired woman stepped from behind the curly-haired man and hurried after her. “Miss Elizabeth, I was so worried about you. When you didn’t call to check on her, I knew I should have called the police—”

And Dalton stopped that woman instead, pulling her up short with a hand on her arm before she could climb the stairs, too. Elizabeth stared down at the woman with the same expression with which she’d looked at her fiancé—as if she didn’t remember her.

“Why didn’t you call the police?” he asked. “Why didn’t you report her missing?”

“Who are you?” the woman asked, her dark eyes narrowing with suspicion.

“FBI Special Agent Reyes,” he introduced himself.

The woman gasped. “Is she still in danger?”

He nodded. “The person who attacked her has not been caught. So, yes, she’s still in danger.”

“Maybe you shouldn’t have come here, Elizabeth,” the curly-haired man told her.

She didn’t even stop—just kept carrying the now-giggling toddler up the stairs.

“She couldn’t stay away from the baby,” the woman admonished him.

“Not even for little Lizzie’s safety?” the man asked.

“Nobody followed us here,” Dalton assured him. “I will make sure they stay safe. But I need to know what the hell’s going on.”

“She really has amnesia?” the man asked.

He nodded. “Yes, but her memory is beginning to return. She remembered her friends—Kenneth and Patricia. She said they live here.”

A little cry slipped through the woman’s lips, and the man shook his head. “Not anymore. Kenny and Patricia are dead.”

Had Elizabeth remembered that yet?

“What happened to them?” he asked, wondering if it was somehow related to what had happened to her. “Were they murdered?”

The woman jerked her head in a quick nod. “Yes, yes...that is what Elizabeth believes.”

The man pushed a hand through his curly hair. “It was a tragedy,” he said. “Kenny was my brother, and I just can’t understand what happened.”

“What happened?” Dalton asked again.

“It was a murder-suicide,” the man replied. “He killed her and then himself.”

The woman began to cry, tears flowing down her face. “Kenneth loved her. He wouldn’t have.”

“I think that’s why he did,” the man said. “So that he would never lose her.”

“Patricia wouldn’t have left him.”

“Why don’t you go check on Elizabeth and the baby,” he suggested, as if annoyed with the woman’s interruptions.

She hesitated, either waiting or maybe hoping for Dalton to stop her again, before she climbed the stairs to wherever Elizabeth had gone.

“Marta and Elizabeth don’t want to accept it,” he said. “But my brother was an insanely jealous man. He was gone a lot for business. And he’d become certain that Patricia was having an affair.”

Dalton was assigned to the organized crime division.

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