Gunfire on the Ranch by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-10-06T14:17:36+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Ivy wanted nothing more than to go back to the safe house so she could see Nathan. But there was no way her brother could spare the manpower right now. No way that Theo would let Ivy and him drive back there alone, either. Not after the other attack on the road and with the possibility of hired thugs still being in the area.

So she paced the hall in front of Gabriel’s office. Waited.

And worried.

Gabriel had already questioned the courier and hadn’t uncovered anything new, but her brother was definitely hoping to learn something from the watch, which he’d already sent for processing. Also to learn something from August. Once the man came in, that is. August had some answering to do over Belinda’s accusations that she’d been at McKenzie’s bar to meet him.

At least Lacey and Wesley wouldn’t be around. Or rather they shouldn’t be. It was unnerving enough having August return, and Ivy didn’t especially want to be under the same roof with all three of their suspects.

The worries kept coming, too. Because the greatest danger might not be with August, Lacey or Wesley. Gabriel had mentioned the possibility of Travis being innocent, and if by some serious long shot he actually was, then God knew who’d killed her parents. But whoever it was could want her and the rest of her family dead.

Not exactly a reassuring thought.

That could explain why she and other members of her family had been getting those threatening letters over the years. There’d been details in some of those letters—such as her mother’s necklace being taken—and the police had purposely kept those out of the reports. It’d been a way of putting a lid on false confessions. So the person who’d written those threats had either managed to hack into those reports, or else he’d been there that night to take the necklace while he’d murdered her mother.

Ivy had to close her eyes a moment to shut out the images. She’d been the one to discover her parents and had actually stepped in her mother’s blood when she ran to the bodies. There’d been nothing she could do, and she didn’t even remember making the frantic call to Gabriel. Good thing she had, too, because when he’d run to their parents’, he’d discovered Jodi on the path. She was within minutes of bleeding out, and he’d managed to save her.

Something Ivy hadn’t been able to do for her folks.

There were times, like now, when she reminded herself that the horror that’d gone on that night could have been even worse. Jodi could be dead, too. Maybe even Gabriel as well, since Jodi’s attacker was probably nearby when her brother had found her. Remembering that soothed Ivy a little. But not enough to make the ache fade in her heart.

Theo finished the call he’d just made to the crime lab, glanced at her and frowned. “You can’t dwell on it,” he said.

It was as if he’d looked right into her mind—something he’d always had a knack for doing—but she didn’t care much for it now.

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