Always a Lawman by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Gabriel didn’t like the way this investigation was going. Somehow, he needed to figure out who was behind the recent attack so he could stop another one. Because he doubted the danger was over.

Neither was the fallout.

Jodi was pacing again, something she’d been doing for the past three hours while they waited for SAPD to find Hector and bring him in. While it seemed as if seeing her brother had soothed her a bit, that soothing was long gone now. Probably because she dreaded the idea of Hector being guilty. It would mean the only man she’d completely trusted for the past ten years hadn’t been someone she could trust after all.

There was a knock at his office door, causing Jodi to whirl in that direction. Gabriel could see her steeling herself up. But it wasn’t necessary because it was only Cameron.

“It’ll be another half hour or so before Hector gets here,” Cameron told them right off, “but I finally got permission for an interview with Billy Coleman.”

That was good news. Or at least it would be if Billy wasn’t so drugged up that he couldn’t talk to them. Still, it was a start.

“You want me to go see Billy, or should I stay here and do the interview with Hector?” Cameron asked.

If Gabriel could have been in two places, that would be ideal, but he needed to stay put with Jodi. “Since Jameson’s already in San Antonio today at the Rangers’ office, have him go see Billy,” Gabriel instructed. “Jameson can probably be there in a matter of minutes. I also want him to record the interview if he can.” Though he seriously doubted Billy’s doctors were going to allow that.

Cameron nodded, looked at Jodi. “This probably won’t come as a surprise, but Hector’s not happy about having to come in.”

“No. I wouldn’t imagine he would be.” Jodi paused. “Did he say anything about me?”

“Words that you probably don’t want to hear. The man has a temper.”

Great. Not a good combination, and when Hector aimed his temper and venom at Jodi, it would eat away at her.

“Anything else in the Sentry computer files?” Cameron asked, motioning to the computer that was still on Gabriel’s desk.

Jodi shook her head. “And I’ve been through every one of them for the past year. Those the year of the attack, too.”

Cameron’s eyebrow lifted, and he shifted his attention back to Gabriel. “You don’t think Hector’s connected to your mom and dad?”

Gabriel blew out a weary breath. “If he is, he didn’t surface as a suspect.”

“And I didn’t know him back then,” Jodi added. She was no doubt thinking about how Hector just showed up out of the blue in her hospital room. “So, unless Hector’s somehow linked to the late Hattie Osmond and that money she was seemingly paying out, then he wouldn’t have had any part in the murder of Gabriel’s parents.”

But maybe he had a part now. Hector could have killed the cop and now could be so jealous of Jodi’s return to Blue River that he could want her punished.

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