Cowboy Above the Law by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-03T19:07:54+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Court could feel the dangerous energy bubbling up inside him, and he hated what this was doing to Rayna. All those feelings and energy were so strong that they almost overshadowed his lawman’s instincts.

“Something’s not right,” he said.

That caused Rayna to fire glances all around them again.

“No, I don’t think Bobby Joe is nearby,” Court added. “In fact, I’m not sure that call was actually from him. I think it was a recording of old conversations that have been spliced together.”

She opened her mouth as if she might dispute that, but then Rayna frowned. She was obviously going back through what she’d heard. “Maybe.”

“That would account for the static and the long pauses in between some of the words.”

Rayna shook her head. “But who would do that? Why would someone want to make us believe it was Bobby Joe?”

“Maybe to rattle us.” And if so, that had worked. But Court got the feeling there was much more to it than that.

He handed his phone to Thea. “I recorded a call that Bobby Joe supposedly just made. I need the voice analyzed on it. Also the voice on the message left for Mitch.”

Thea nodded. “I’ve already started working on tracing that call to Mitch. It came from a burner, so no luck.”

That was too bad. A burner was a prepaid cell phone that couldn’t be traced.

“But I did find something strange,” Thea added a moment later. “Using that same burner, someone called Mitch three times before leaving that message. It appears Mitch answered the other three calls, but Bobby Joe or whoever it was didn’t talk to him. Or if he did, they were very short conversations. It appears the only time the caller actually communicated was through the message he left on the fourth call that Mitch didn’t answer.”

Yeah, that was strange, and it was right in line with Court’s theory about Bobby Joe’s conversation being spliced together. Maybe someone had taken old recordings and used them.

But again. Court didn’t know why.

“I’m done with his phone,” Thea added. “I’ve gotten everything I can from it—including copying the message from Bobby Joe. Now I’m just waiting on the phone company to email a complete record of all the calls and texts he’s made in the past couple of months.”

It might take a while to get that, especially since Mitch wasn’t being charged with a serious crime.

“I can give Mitch back his phone when I talk to him,” Court said, taking it from her.

Thea nodded again. “It can’t wait until Ian is done taking his statement?” she asked. Her concern wasn’t because she had doubts about his interrogation skills. It was because Mitch was a hothead who could set off Court’s own temper.

“No. I’m not going to interview him right now. I just want to ask him about that message.”

Thea still looked a little skeptical. So did Rayna, and she followed him to the interview room. Ian was typing something on a laptop. It was no doubt Mitch’s statement.

Mitch immediately got to his feet when Court opened the door.

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