Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense June 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Shirlee McCoy

Author:Shirlee McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

There was no reason to stay and watch the volunteer firefighters work on dousing the flames. The best they could do was set up a perimeter and make sure the fire did not spread after devouring Mitch’s cabin. There was nothing much of monetary value in the structure. He would miss the rocking chair his father had made for his mother, and the old mantel clock, but most of all he’d miss his trains. He’d never reveal that fact, even under pain of death, but Wade would know. Wade had always known how best to hurt those around him.

I’ll never be put in a cage again, Mitch. It wasn’t a threat as much as a promise, his second, delivered through the hacked edges of a solid wood door. The first quivered in his gut like a spear driven deep.

She will be mine or she will die.

As he drove the truck to the police station, the words thumped again and again inside him. What if Jane was right and the only way out was to stand and capture him together?

The cop side of him balked. It was not logical. Mitch had no badge anymore. Foley and the marshals could provide organized protection and track Wade. It was what the marshals were created for, their mission since George Washington made it so in 1789. And the marshals were the best at what they did; he knew that firsthand. Accepting their protection was the wisest course of action.

The kitten stirred against his stomach, soothed by the warmth, he imagined. He had no idea what he was going to do with a cat, and he had no brain space to worry about it. Foley’s voice via the cell phone had not been encouraging, so he suspected Wade had eluded capture.

Then again, Foley might be playing with him, spooling out the drama until he could tell Mitch personally that he’d arrested Wade in spite of Jane’s unwillingness to take Foley’s advice and go into protective custody. Foley would relish the chance to tell Mitch he’d made the bust, taken care of a problem Mitch should have addressed decades before Wade’s serial killings.

He’s your brother, your kin, your burden, and you left it to others to deal with. That would be the unspoken accusation, which Mitch could not deny, since it was the same one Mitch leveled at himself.

Mitch had been a ruthlessly effective marshal, his tenacity in tracking fugitives unrivaled. There were days, weeks even, when he had lived on a few hours of sleep and forgotten to eat while on the trail of a killer. “You’re a monster,” the sister of a fugitive he’d tracked had shouted at him. A monster, like his brother? Two sides of a deadly coin, the cop and the killer. He put every shred of energy into his job, perhaps to prove to himself on which side of that coin he belonged.

Yet he had not tracked his brother. Mitch, the relentless marshal, had left the bomb to go

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