Not This Time by Vicki Hinze

Author:Vicki Hinze [Hinze, Vicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-60142-275-0
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2012-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

13

Friday afternoon, Jeff approached Beth and Sara. “We’re running out of time and budget.”

Beth spotted three idle agents in the living room. That wasn’t a good sign.

Jeff lowered his voice. “If something doesn’t break soon—word from the kidnappers, an attempt to retrieve the money from the Gulf, a new lead, something—they’ll have to assign the agents to other cases.” His stomach growled.

“I understand.” Sara sighed and stood. “Would you like a sandwich or something?”

“I would. I missed lunch.”

Beth watched them walk out of the family room and worried. Sara was falling for him. It was evident in everything she said and every move she made. She wouldn’t act, but the feelings were there and growing, and from all signs, they were there for Jeff too.

Regret squeezed inside Beth. If Robert weren’t in the picture, Beth would be elated. Sara and Jeff brought out the best in each other. But Robert was in the picture, and that made what was going on, well, Beth didn’t know what to think. Neither, she suspected, did Sara or Jeff. Both were honorable people who respected marriage vows. How had things gotten so messy?

Roxy and Ben came into the family room. “We’ve got to go, Beth. Before I leave,” Roxy said, “I wanted to tell you that I expect headquarters is going to cut—”

“Jeff told Sara and me. She understood. What can you do when nothing is happening?”

“I’m sorry. We are still working on it, but frankly, we need a break.”

Ben stepped forward. “We’ll keep working on this privately. I remember what it was like. Not knowing who killed Susan nearly drove me out of my mind. I’d turn over every stone to spare Sara that.” It’d taken years to find his wife and son’s killers.

“Thanks, Ben.” Mark and Joe would do everything humanly possible, and so would Roxy on her own if not through the FBI, but if Robert Tayton didn’t want to be found—and that was possible if he was Joe’s other Robert—then he wouldn’t be found. It’d be just like Robert to leave Sara trapped in the heartless misery of uncertainty for the rest of her life.

And because Beth had no doubt he was capable of inflicting such misery, for the first time, she didn’t just not like him. She feared him.

A man who could do that could do anything.

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