Agent's Wyoming Mission by Jennifer D. Bokal

Author:Jennifer D. Bokal
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-08T12:33:36+00:00

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If Luis was right, and he was afraid that he was, then Julia’s life was at risk. For a moment, he imagined a world without Julia. The thought hit him with the force of a train that had jumped the tracks. They approached the truck and he tried to think of something to say. There were no words.

And then, his eye was drawn to the first-aid kit that sat on the driver’s seat, and more importantly, to the evidence envelope inside. “I found something,” he said. Stretching across the seats, Luis opened the kit and retrieved the bag.

“What is it?” Julia asked.

“Proof that Darcy had an accomplice, at least for the killings of her parents.”

Taking the envelope, Julia read the diary entry through the translucent plastic. “Who is the Watcher? Bethany Edwards?”

“Yeah, but she has an alibi for Tom Dolan’s death.”

“Could be another friend.”

“Didn’t Chloe Ryder work at Darcy’s high school? She was a social work intern or something.”

With a nod, Julia said, “I think you’re right.”

“There was a yearbook upstairs,” said Luis. “We can take it back to Pleasant Pines and show it to Chloe.”

“Don’t you think we should search the rest of the house?”

“I think we’ve done enough. If we need to, we can come back.”

She nodded. “I’ll get the yearbook.”

Luis wasn’t about to let Julia out of his sight, not even for a few minutes, especially since she was being stalked by a killer. “I’ll go with you,” he said.

Thankfully, she didn’t argue. Within a few minutes, they’d returned to Darcy’s room, retrieved the yearbook and resecured the home. They took a few minutes more to clean and bandage the cut to Luis’s leg. The rest of the injuries he left to heal on their own.

“Didn’t Robert Carpenter say something about the homecoming dance and a prank that Bethany played?” said Julia, flipping through the pages of the yearbook.

“Yeah, that Bethany cut off all of Darcy’s hair. And then today, Bethany denied it all. We decided that either Robert or Bethany is lying.”

“Here’s an easy way to find out which one,” said Julia. She opened the yearbook to the section that covered the homecoming festivities. Pep rally. Football game. Parade. “Ah, the dance.”

Luis looked over her shoulder as they scoured the pictures. Second page, bottom left corner. There was a picture of two kids, holding hands and awkwardly dancing. He read the caption. “‘Senior Robert Carpenter with his date, Darcy Owens.’”

“Looks like Darcy attended the dance after all,” said Julia.

“It also looks like Robert lied to us,” he replied. “I think we need to pay him a visit.”

“This morning, Robert Carpenter told us that he grew up near Darcy,” said Julia as she slid behind the steering wheel of the truck. “I wonder if his parents still own the house? It’ll be an easy drive and who knows what they might say.”

Luis nodded, but his mind was elsewhere. If Tom Dolan’s killer was really stalking Julia, then for Luis, learning the killer’s identity had gone from a professional priority to a personal one.

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