Everywhere She Goes by Janice Kay Johnson

Author:Janice Kay Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

COLIN FOLLOWED CAIT into the house four days later, suit coat slung over one shoulder, the ends of his tie dangling.

“This is Nell’s late night, isn’t it?” she asked.

His grunts were as speaking as Noah’s. This was an unhappy one. “Yeah, unfortunately. You and I should have grabbed dinner on the way home.”

“I’ll cook tonight,” she offered. “How about something simple? Quesadillas?”

“I’m beat,” he admitted. “If you mean it...”

“Of course I do.” She smiled at him. Their relationship was getting easier.

“Cait.” He stopped her with a hand on her arm. “We’ll find the son of a bitch.”

She nodded. He had told her as soon as he’d picked her up downtown that a county sheriff’s deputy had found Blake’s camp, tucked on the bank of Bear Creek outside city limits. Neither Blake nor his car had been there, but the tent matched Cait’s description, and when the deputy unzipped the small blue tent, he’d seen a white cardboard banker’s box filled with file folders. The lid, carelessly tossed aside on top of the sleeping bag, had “Ralston” scrawled on it in black marker.

Really? Blake had brought work with him to fill the hours when he wasn’t terrorizing her? Now, that infuriated her, maybe because it said, This man isn’t really crazy.

“I know,” she said, patting Colin’s shoulder.

Black bean and cheese quesadillas were Cait’s go-to dinner when she wanted food on the table in twenty minutes or less. Colin cooperated by putting a salad together while she cooked. Of course, she had to triple the number of quesadillas she made, since her brother’s appetite was considerably heartier than hers.

After they had finished eating she was restoring the top to the sour cream and he was leaning back in his chair, sighing in repletion, when his phone rang. Unfortunately, he kept it with him everywhere but the bathroom, as far as she could tell.

He groaned, looked at the number and answered, listening for a minute before he said, “A what?”

Interest sharpened, Cait unashamedly eavesdropped but couldn’t get anything from his side of the conversation except that he was stunned. “Of course we have to,” he said at one point. “I’ll be there,” he finally growled, ending the call and pushing back from the table.

“As you probably gathered, I’ve got to go in. Unbelievably enough, we’ve had a bomb threat.”

“In Angel Butte?”

His laugh was unamused. “Better yet. The library.”

“You’re kidding.”

“I wish.” He disappeared toward the bedroom, but his voice carried to her. “They have a program going on tonight in the meeting room. Historical society talking about the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century range wars and vigilantism. To encourage attendance, the children’s librarian is holding a preschool story time to include crafts.”

“Oh, my God. You mean, the library is packed?”

“Yeah.” Badge and gun back at his belt, he was shrugging into the suit coat again as he came back down the hall. “They’re going to start evacuating.”

“At least Nell doesn’t work there.”

Her brother’s eyes met hers. “Yeah. I’ll count my blessings.”

She followed him to the front door, where he paused.

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