Lone Star Rescue: Former Military Romantic Suspense (Hard Justice Book 1) by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lone Star Lit
Published: 2024-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Ten

With the dread building in her with each passing second, Bree threaded the cruiser down the country road while Rafe was reading through the latest report he’d gotten.

A thorough background check on Dani Dawson.

So far, he wasn’t saying much, which meant there likely wasn’t anything in it they could use to try to pin her murder on Buckner. If there was nothing to find, then they’d have to rely on other things. Such as canvassing the area around the inn/body dump and showing Buckner’s photo to anyone who might have seen the man. That would be a huge drain on her manpower, but it was the next logical step since there were no traffic cameras on that particular stretch of the road.

The dread went up another notch when she took the turn to Wade’s estate. She knew he was home because she’d called his housekeeper to confirm it. The housekeeper had told Bree that Wade had been in his office since he arrived back home.

It didn’t sit well with her, but she had to face the possibility that the man had outright lied to them about Sandy Lynn being his daughter.

Of course, she was hoping that Wade hadn’t known it was a lie.

That he hadn’t been aware he’d fathered a child other than Tessa.

Though, judging from the age the forensic anthropologist had determined, this child, this daughter, would have been born when Wade had been married. Around the time Tessa would have likely been a toddler. Certainly, if Wade had had an affair, he must have at least considered he could have gotten his lover pregnant.

She’d checked, and the DNA results were solid on this. Wade was definitely the dead woman’s father, and the dead woman wasn’t Tessa. That had been ruled out because of the height and size difference. So, who was Sandy Lynn, and why had her body been buried in Canyon Ridge?

Maybe the universe wanted to supply her with some answers to those questions because Rafe's phone sounded again with an incoming message.

“The preliminary background on Sandy Lynn,” he said.

That was fast since Jericho and Ruby had only gotten the “tasking” for the background checks less than a half hour earlier.

“Good. Read it to me,” she insisted. And she hoped the reading wouldn’t take more than a minute or two since they’d soon be at Wade’s.

“Sandy Lynn’s mother is Nancy Franklin, aged fifty-seven, which means she was nineteen when she had Sandy Lynn. No father is listed on the birth certificate.”

That didn’t surprise Bree. In Texas, the father couldn’t be listed unless he signed the certificate form or else the mother provided a court document proving paternity.

“Nancy listed her occupation as a waitress at a diner in San Antonio at the time of the delivery,” Rafe went on. “Jericho’s doing a background check on her now, and he’s pretty sure she’s still alive since there’s no death certificate. Once he finds her…well, she’ll need to know about her daughter.”

“Yes,” Bree agreed, which meant a death notification.

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