Love Under Two Outfitters by Cara Covington

Author:Cara Covington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Ian looked around the large dining room table in the Big House. I should have made a bet with Ken. He’d known that they’d all likely wind up here, once they made their way back to Lusty from Waco.

Grandma Kate as well as Grandpa Noah were in attendance. His Aunt Samantha and his three uncles, Preston, Charles, and Taylor were there. Caleb Benedict, Texas Ranger retired, looked at ease, pad of paper and pen at the ready.

The three private detectives of the Richardson, Talbot, and Jessop Security Agency were there, as were as his cousins Adam and Jake.

“Portman will come around.” Jake Kendall sat back, a cup of coffee at his right hand.

“It’s a common mind-set,” Caleb Benedict said. “The reason the cops looked at the two of you first wasn’t personal. It was statistics.”

“Yes, sir.” Alice nodded to Uncle Caleb. “The guys had that figured out on the way from Austin, and Ken even had all the relative files assembled for them.” Then she frowned. “Sure made me mad, though.”

“You’d have been proud of both of these two,” Ian said, indicating Alice and Ken. “One of them would get ready to blow, and the other would step in, diverting attention, allowing everyone’s better angels to prevail.”

“We are proud of all of you,” Kate Benedict said. “And we all share your mad, Alice. What remains then is for us to find out what’s going on. Anyone who would go to the lengths this person has to try and cause trouble for the two of you won’t stop just because his first plan didn’t work out.”

“I didn’t care for the sergeant’s attitude,” Alice said. “But do you really think that he and the Waco Police Department are incapable of investigating the situation?”

“It’s not a question of our faith or lack of same in the sergeant’s abilities,” Jake said.

“It’s that Lusty takes care of her own.” Grandpa Noah nodded as he said that, and Ian did not miss the look of pride he wore.

“She does indeed,” Grandma Kate said.

That was a sentiment that Ian had heard expressed a few times in his life. He’d just never imagined—even knowing the plan was to come here, to sink down roots here—that the sentiment would ever apply to him and Ken, and to their woman.

Kate Benedict sat forward. “What’s the plan, going forward, Mel?”

“We’ll be doing some knocking on doors, seeing if anyone saw anything. We’ll talk to all the employees and have a word with Bob Travis. Maybe they saw someone or had someone in the store in the last few days that raised some hackles.” Mel Richardson looked to his associates.

“People see things they don’t know they’ve seen, until you ask them.” April Bixby-Jessop grinned. “They see what someone wants them to see, almost ninety-nine percent of the time. But once you ask them, well, the memory often clears.”

“I downloaded the video feed from the security company’s file and will spend the next few hours reviewing it,” Connor Talbot said.

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