Holden (The Lawmen of Silver Creek Ranch) by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781335720832
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2017-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Holden put the flash drive in his laptop and watched as the info popped onto the screen. There was only one file, and it was indeed a video. However, that didn’t mean Beatrice was right about Nicky and him seeing the person who was responsible for the Genesis Project and the kidnappings.

“The images could be doctored,” Holden reminded Nicky, though he doubted she needed such a reminder.

After all, Beatrice was still a suspect and whatever was on the footage could be there simply to clear her name. Holden seriously doubted that the woman would have given them anything to incriminate herself. Just the opposite.

Nicky nodded, her attention already nailed to the screen, but Holden didn’t miss that her forehead was bunched up. “Are you in pain?” he asked.

“No.” But Nicky must have realized she said it too quickly because she flexed her eyebrows. “Just a little.”

Translation—she was hurting bad. It didn’t matter that the bullet had only grazed her—she had five stitches, and the area around those stitches was no doubt throbbing.

Even though the footage was already loading, he hit the pause button, and went to the bathroom off the master suite. While he was there, Holden checked on the baby and Landon—both were napping so he didn’t disturb them. He went back into the kitchen with a bottle of over-the-counter painkillers and got her a glass of water.

It was a testament to how much Nicky truly was hurting because she didn’t argue with him about taking the meds. While he was at it, he sent a text to Gage so he could contact the doctor to write Nicky that prescription for pain meds that she’d turned down earlier.

“I’m okay, really,” she said after she took the pills and set both the bottle and the water on the kitchen table.

Holden went closer. In fact, he got right in her face, and he stared at her.

“All right, I’ll be okay once the painkillers kick in,” she admitted.

Holden sighed, eased her onto one of the chairs and, because he thought they both could use it, he leaned down and kissed her.

“You keep doing that,” she whispered against his mouth.

“Yeah. Want me to stop?”

The corner of her mouth lifted. “Only because we should be reviewing the video.”

Holden certainly hadn’t forgotten about it, but he silently cursed the distraction. And it wasn’t even Nicky’s fault. It was his own. His body had the notion that Nicky was his for the taking.

And she wasn’t.

He sank down beside her and got the footage moving. As he’d expected, the quality sucked. It was nighttime, and the PI had obviously shot from a distance. Probably an attempt to stop the kidnappers from seeing him. The problem was Holden couldn’t see the kidnappers. Or Beatrice, for that matter.

“You recognize that part of the park?” Nicky asked.

Holden nodded. “It’s a trail that coils around the creek.” Not exactly on the beaten path, which was why the kidnappers had likely chosen it.

He fast-forwarded it until he saw the headlights come into view.

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