Racing Against Time by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

Brent was on her the second she closed the cell phone. “What do you have?”

“A possible lead.” She tried to recall what she’d gleaned from Walker’s file the other day. She couldn’t remember if the man had a daughter or not. “John Walker was paroled six months ago. He was a no-show at his last meeting with his parole officer.” While wanting to keep his spirits from flagging, she didn’t want to raise his hopes up too high, either. “Could be nothing,” she warned, telling him what she figured he already knew. “A lot of ex-cons pull disappearing acts.” There was a more important question to ask. “Do you remember him displaying any particular sense of hostility toward you when they took him away?”

Brent was quiet for a moment, trying to recall the case, the mood that had surrounded the trial. Only vague facts returned to him. He doubted even those would have returned if he and Callie hadn’t spent so much time going over his cases.

Walker was a two-bit junkie who had robbed a liquor store owner of the princely sum of sixty-three dollars while waving a realistic looking toy gun. It had been his second offense. Brent could remember no remorse being displayed. “No more than usual. He was angrier at his lawyer for not getting him off because he’d used a toy gun instead of the real thing than he was at me. I don’t think I really entered into the picture for him.”

Maybe yes, maybe no. Maybe Rachel represented freedom rather than a child to the man. Brent took away his freedom, he was going to take away something precious from the judge.

“Still, I have to check it out.”

Brent nodded, eager to stop talking and start doing. “I want to come with you.”

“And I want you to come with me.” Too late, she realized how that must sound to him. Why had she worded it that way? she berated herself silently. “The kidnapper might call you back. I want to know the second he does. Best way I know to do that is to keep you around as much as possible.” She led the way to her car. It went without saying that they would use hers and return later for his. “Just as long as you remember to stay out of the way if anything goes down,” she warned. “The last thing either one of us needs is for you to get shot.”

He stopped at her vehicle. “But you getting shot is okay?”

The corner of her mouth curved upward. “Never okay. I’ve just had more training at covering my tail than you have.”

“No,” he agreed wryly, his eyes traveling to that portion of her anatomy almost against his will, “they never went over tail covering in judge school.”

She heard the note of cynicism in his voice. “I meant no disrespect.”

Brent sighed. He supposed no one ever knew how they would react under dire circumstances until they occurred. He really was going to have to get better control over himself than this.

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