Lucas by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Hailey heard every word of what Grayson said. Saw it, too, written in the ransom demand. But it still took a moment to sink in.

Mercy.

If this was real, then her niece could be in grave danger. It didn’t matter that she’d never seen the child. Hailey still loved her and wanted to protect her.

“No,” Lucas said before Hailey could speak. “You’re not going to do this.”

Since she was about to tell him that she would indeed do it, he’d obviously known what she was thinking. “I have the money in savings. It’s from my father’s life insurance. I’ve never spent any of it, and it’s in a bank in San Antonio.”

“The money’s not the problem,” Lucas argued.

Yes, she knew what he meant. It was the personally part of the demand. Someone wanted her dead, and this could be a trap to lure her out into the open.

“But we can’t just let them disappear with the baby,” she snapped. What she felt was pure frustration because Lucas and she were both right. She couldn’t go out to deliver anything, but she also couldn’t just give up on getting back the baby.

“Just sit,” Grayson suggested to her. “We’ll work this out somehow.”

His phone buzzed, and he lifted his finger in a wait-a-second gesture. Since the caller had gotten Grayson’s full attention, Hailey figured it had to be about the kidnapping.

“Eric or Minton could have taken the baby,” Hailey tossed out there.

Lucas nodded. “Or this could be something Colleen concocted. We don’t know what her real motives are.”

True, but it sickened her to think that her sister might be using her own child to do whatever it was she was trying to do. Plain and simple, maybe this was about the money.

“Even though my mother adopted Colleen, she didn’t leave Colleen any money from her life insurance,” Hailey told Lucas. “She and my mother were on the outs at the time of her death, and she left it solely to me. I offered to share it with Colleen, but she was so angry at being cut out of the will that she refused.”

“Was Colleen angry enough to do something like pretending to kidnap her own daughter?”

Hailey had to shrug. “Colleen was always angry about a lot of things. Still...this doesn’t feel like something she’d do.”

Of course, she’d been wrong about Colleen before. She hadn’t thought her sister would delete those files she’d stashed away about Eric. Which was a reminder that she didn’t have a key part of what the kidnappers were demanding.

“If we can work out a deal with the kidnappers so I don’t personally have to deliver their demands, I’ll need to put together some fake files to give them.”

Lucas didn’t give her his opinion on that because Grayson finished his call and turned to them. “That was the agency for the courier who delivered the package. The person paid in cash, and according to his driver’s license, his name is Eldon Silverton. It’s fake,” Grayson quickly added.

Hailey didn’t even bother to groan because it had been such a long shot, anyway.

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