Mistaken Twin by Jodie Bailey

Author:Jodie Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-10T14:51:21+00:00

NINE

Wyatt scrubbed eyes scratchy from yet another sleepless night. They’d all spent a restless night trying to sleep in various rooms at the station until the chief had released Jenna to return to work with Wyatt in tow. Although the chief viewed it as a mere precaution and that Jenna was likely safe, Wyatt didn’t believe the evidence. Not for one second. He’d heard the same before and it had proven false.

Jenna wasn’t out of danger. It didn’t matter what the Feds said. It didn’t matter what their suspects said. This felt like déjà vu all over again, right to the uneasy dread in his gut, the warning that something bad was coming.

Wyatt leaned a hip against the desk in Jenna’s office and stared out the two-way mirror into the storefront area. Four rows of four easels faced the side wall, where Liza demonstrated a painting of a stylized sunrise over a mountain. A group of seven men, women and children followed her every move with mixed results, though everyone seemed to be having fun.

None of them paid any sort of special attention to Jenna, who maintained her spot at the coffee bar. She’d alternated the day between serving customers, cleaning and simply staring out the front window.

Staring anywhere but in his direction, if he was telling the truth.

She hadn’t said more than two sentences to him since he’d followed her into the shop early in the morning. “Stay in the office” and “don’t scare the customers” didn’t really qualify as conversation. It could be she was upset with him for talking Chief Thompson into extending his guard duty for a few more days. She hadn’t seemed to appreciate his presence, almost seemed to resent it, in fact.

He couldn’t blame her. He’d overheard her on the phone with Erin in the small hours of the night. She wanted this to be over. Wyatt’s continued presence did nothing but reinforce the fact she might still have something to be afraid of.

He couldn’t believe the federal team had backed off so quickly, taking their suspect at his word. It was foolish to trust a criminal. Even Chief Thompson had been a bit cagey this morning, refusing to meet Wyatt’s eye.

There was a bigger issue at play, one nobody wanted to discuss, and Wyatt couldn’t figure out what it was. The men arrested at Christa’s had confessed to coming after Jenna, but they claimed they were lone wolves out to get revenge on Amy for taking down Grant Meyer.

Their confession didn’t feel right. The whole thing was too easy and the entire situation made his head hurt. He’d have to talk with the chief later, try to find out what was really happening behind the scenes. It would have to be at a time when Jenna was safely somewhere out of earshot, though. Getting her worked up again wasn’t something he wanted to do. The woman needed peace badly. Seemed she also needed time away from him, which she wasn’t getting until he knew for certain this had all blown over and she was truly safe.

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