Montana Mustang by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, paranormal
Publisher: Crimson Romance, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The sun had started to rise over the tops of the mountains, flooding the valley and the ranch with light. The horses were getting restless in their stalls, stomping and neighing as the group of officers and investigators filtered through the stable. They hadn’t found much besides the tarp, which the investigators had taken for samples and evidence.

Zeb was planted in the back seat of Officer Grant’s patrol car, waiting to be taken back to the station for questioning. They could hold him for forty-eight hours before they had to let him go; which they would have to, unless he admitted having a part in the murders. There was nothing conclusive that proved Zeb was responsible. At least not until the results of the blood sample came back from the lab. If the blood proved to be from Angela or the other woman, Dane’s brother would have a hard time proving that he was innocent.

There would be a lot of work to do to figure out exactly what had happened. Some things still didn’t seem to fit. Zeb hadn’t appeared to know anything about the second woman. Sure, he had motive and means to kill Angela, but it just didn’t make sense why he’d kill two women and take a third. And if he did take Natalie, then where was she?

Dane’s sergeant stepped up beside him and put his thumb in his utility belt. “Did your brother give you a confession?”

“No. Not yet.”

The sergeant shuffled some of the hay on the floor with the toe of his boot. “We need to figure out who’s behind all of this. The newspapers are beginning to go crazy. The Missoulian even made mention of a possible serial killer. It would be a real egg-on-the-face to have another murder. We can’t risk what that would mean for the department. To say nothing about your standing within the county.”

The man didn’t need to verbalize what he was already thinking. Of course people were talking … calling them, and him, incompetent. “I’m trying to follow all the leads, Sarge. You know how this is. One step at a time.”

“I’d appreciate it if you could start taking two. I even got a call from the governor this morning. We’re starting to make national headlines.”

Federal investigators were the last thing they needed. Sarge wasn’t telling him anything he didn’t already know. They needed to get this under control. And they needed to put an end to the killing.

“Hopefully we have it taken care of.” Sarge gave a tight nod toward Zeb in the patrol car. “I’ll push on the crime lab. See if they can get the investigation wrapped up. Maybe we can get something more from the bodies and the tarp to pin this to Zeb. That would quiet the media’s talk about us if we could confirm that we have the killer in custody.”

His brother was crass and tough, but did that really make him a killer? Dane couldn’t come to terms with it.

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