Looking for a Cowboy (Heart of Texas) by Donna Grant

Author:Donna Grant [Grant, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250250063
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2020-10-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 24

This wasn’t how Cooper had planned to spend the day with Marlee, but he wasn’t upset about it. The fact that he was with her was good enough for him. Her gaze sought him out as they walked to the motel room she’d rented. He reached for her hand, and she smiled as she linked her fingers with his.

Jace walked behind them. Cooper glanced back at his friend and found Jace’s gaze on the ground, a peculiar expression on his face. Cooper didn’t get a chance to ask him about it because they reached Marlee’s door. She used the key to get in and walked inside.

Cooper had gotten a quick glimpse of the room when he’d picked her up the night before, but his eyes had been more on her. Now, he got to see it all. The walls were covered with pictures of Brice, Naomi, and the rest of their group. There were pictures of the adoption agency in Dallas, of an older woman in her late fifties walking out of the office with her head turned to the side, and another of that same woman talking to a man with a baseball hat, who had his back to the camera. There were more pictures on the second bed and even some on the floor.

Jace let out a low whistle as he shut the door behind him. “Damn.”

“I like to see things set out,” Marlee explained. “Stuff can get lost in the shuffle in a file.”

Cooper spotted a picture of him and glanced at Marlee. “Makes sense. Tell us what all you have.”

She took a deep breath and went to the wall nearest her. “The first half of this wall is dedicated to the family of the missing infant. Including copies of a few of the crime scene photos.”

“Damn,” Jace said again when he looked closer at a picture of a body covered with a white sheet, blood pooled all around it. “That’s a lot of blood.”

“That’s what they do,” Marlee said. “What they do is brutal. And slow.”

Cooper walked to Marlee and retook her hand. He gave it a squeeze, letting her know that he was there to help in whatever capacity she allowed.

She gave him a nod before pointing to the next section, which was significantly smaller. “I also began making a note of who investigated the crimes to see if I could connect them.”

“You think they could be working with someone?” Jace asked as his head snapped to her.

Marlee shrugged. “At this point, I’ll consider anything. I’m ruling nothing out. Including the authorities working with each other to keep things quiet or working with the criminals.”

“I agree, it’s a possibility,” Cooper said.

Jace shrugged. “And these photos?”

“That’s everyone that I’ve found who is connected to the adoption agency in some form or fashion,” she explained.

Cooper let his gaze move slowly over the various pictures. Below each one was a name and their role with the company. “I suppose you already looked into these people?”

“Yes. It’s ongoing, however.

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