Lone Star Target by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lone Star Books
Published: 2024-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

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Because Jace was still sitting right next to Kit, he felt the muscles in her arm go stiff. He was having a similar reaction, too, but he didn’t voice the thoughts of his worst-case scenario.

That Brandon was dead.

Jace didn’t want to even say the words, knowing it would rip Kit apart, so he just waited for Ruby to continue.

“It’s the cop assigned to guard Marvin,” Ruby added a heartbeat later. “Officer Mike Waylon. He’s dead.”

Jace mentally repeated all of that, and while it was a relief to hear that the body wasn’t Brandon’s, a police officer was still dead.

“Murdered?” Jace asked.

“Yes,” Ruby verified. “He died from a single gunshot wound to the head at close range. His lieutenant sent someone to the safe house to check on him when he didn’t respond and found him.”

“And what about Marvin?” he pressed.

“Missing. At this point, we don’t know if Marvin was responsible for the officer’s death or if someone learned the location of the safehouse, barged in, killed the cop and fled with Marvin.”

Hell.

Either of those could have happened.

And that brought this right back to Trevor and Ramsey. They had motive for getting to Marvin. If it was either of them, it was possible the man was dead.

But why not just kill him on scene the way they had Officer Waylon?

That was something Jace very much wanted to find out.

“Here’s what we know so far,” Ruby went on a moment later. “A traffic camera about three blocks from the safe house spotted Marvin in a black truck heading northeast toward the interstate. He wasn’t alone. The driver of the vehicle was wearing a ski mask, and from the angle of the camera feed, we can’t tell if Marvin was restrained in some way.”

“Northeast,” Kit muttered, and Jace knew where she was going with this.

His house was in the northeast direction. Of course, so were a lot of other places, but Jace couldn’t discount that Marvin and this masked guy were coming here. They wouldn’t be able to just waltz in. However, they could get close enough to fire shots into the house.

“Roy, close all curtains and blinds,” Jace instructed, and the whirring sounds of that happening began to flood through the house.

“Yes, best to take precautions. At this point—” Ruby stopped when Kit’s phone rang.

Kit took her phone from her pocket, and her eyes widened the moment she saw the screen. “Unknown Caller. It could be the kidnapper.”

Maybe. But since the kidnapper hadn’t called her with the first contact, then why had he done it now?

“Put the call on speaker,” Ruby instructed. “I’ll be recording it and trying to trace the location of the caller.”

Kit nodded and answered it. “Katherine Barclay.”

“Aunt Kit,” the caller blurted. Not a kidnapper.

Brandon.

The relief seemed to wash over Kit. “Where are you? Are you all right?”

“I’m not hurt other than a few scrapes and bruises.” His words were rushed together, mixed with breathing that was too hard, too fast. “As for where,” Brandon went on, “I’m not sure.

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