Long, Tall Texans_Hank by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488097553
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-03-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“What do we do now?” Brody asked.

Julie sighed. “Unfortunately we’ll have to leave him locked up for tonight. Maybe spending the night in a cell will convince him to talk.”

Brody shook his head. “I doubt it. A night in a cell may be a reprieve from what he’s endured these past few years.”

Julie winced. “I hate to say it, but you may be right.”

Brody scrubbed a hand over his face. “I can’t stand to see him like that, handcuffed and in a cell, not after all he’s suffered. I always thought when I found him, he’d be glad to see me and I’d bring him home.”

Julie rubbed his arm in a comforting gesture. “I know it’s difficult, but at least he’s alive, Brody. That means you have a chance to bring him home someday.”

Brody turned to her, praying that he could do just that. “What happens if he doesn’t talk?”

“I’m going to insist on both a physical exam and a psych evaluation,” Julie said. “Hopefully we can use that in court to avoid going to trial until we know all the details about Kyle’s abductor and catch this maniac.”

Brody latched onto that hope. If he could just take the teenager to the BBL, maybe he could breach that armor Will had erected to protect himself.

“Let me make some calls.”

She started to step out of the room, and Brody caught her arm. “Thanks, Julie. I…appreciate everything you’re doing.”

Her beautiful eyes glittered with emotions. “You don’t have to thank me, Brody. I want Will home with you where he belongs, and I want the man who took him to rot in prison for the rest of his life.”

Brody nodded, the years falling away as a hint of the old Julie returned. But the pain and guilt in her voice reminded him of the chasm between them. That losing Will had torn them apart.

Would finding him bring them back together again?

Julie stepped from the room, and he glanced through the window at the troubled, angry boy in the interrogation room, and thoughts of a reunion with Julie fled.

All that mattered was reaching his brother and finding out who’d kidnapped him and turned him into a criminal.

Then he’d make the bastard pay.

After that, he had to help Will heal from the trauma he’d suffered over the years.

Of course, Will—Kyle—hadn’t acknowledged that he recognized him, but deep in his gut, Brody knew this boy was his little brother. What had his abductor told him about his family?

Brody had told Will that he’d looked for him for years, but the boy had shown no reaction.

But somewhere deep down he had to know that Brody had never given up the search and that he loved him.

And if he didn’t, Brody would make sure that he told him every day for the rest of his life until he believed him.

* * *

JULIE CORNERED AGENT Cord in the break room. “We have to get a medical and psych exam. That boy has been severely abused.”

“I agree,” Agent Cord said.

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