Roughshod Justice by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-15T15:10:19+00:00

Chapter Eleven

They had already dodged bullets from Mandy’s kidnappers, but Jameson should have known it wasn’t over. He’d let the news of the baby—his baby—distract him, and that could turn out to be a fatal mistake.

He needed to push aside that baby news and the emotions that came with it and focus on getting them out of this.

“Go to the back door,” Jameson told Susan. “Make sure it’s locked and that these guys don’t try to sneak up on us.” There weren’t any houses back there. Not that Jameson had seen anyway, but it was possible there were trees and shrubs that one of these hired guns could use.

“Check all the windows. Look for any vulnerable points of attack,” Gabriel added to Cameron, and the deputies hurried off to do those tasks.

“Is there a bathroom without windows?” Jameson asked Mandy.

She nodded. “There’s one just off the hall.”

Good. That was a start, though it wasn’t ideal since bullets could go through walls and still reach them. “Take Erica and Gracelyn there, now,” he told Kelly.

Jameson could see the stark fear in Kelly’s eyes, but he couldn’t assure her that this was going to turn out well. It could end up in a gunfight, though that wasn’t what Jameson wanted. Not with his daughter in the house.

Gabriel took out his phone, no doubt to call for backup, and while Jameson kept watch, he quickly reassembled the phone Mandy had taken. Right now, it was the only way he had to communicate with these snakes other than opening the door and going out there to face them down.

“One of them is getting out of the first SUV,” Gabriel relayed.

Yeah, Jameson saw the gun. He got out from the driver’s side, which meant the SUV was in between him and them. Jameson doubted that was a coincidence. The guy was using it for cover, and he was no doubt armed to the hilt.

Kelly’s gaze connected with his as she started moving. “Be careful,” she said, but she frowned as if that weren’t nearly enough.

She was right. Words alone weren’t going to fix this, or their personal situation for that matter, but if the thugs heard backup arriving, they might run again. Of course, they might be a good fifteen or twenty minutes from that happening.

Jameson waited until Erica, Gracelyn and Kelly had gone into the bathroom, and he shot a look at Mandy to prompt her to go, too. “I’m staying,” she insisted. “But I need a gun.”

He debated it, because Jameson still had a strange feeling about her, but he finally handed her the gun she’d taken from the kidnappers. Maybe she wouldn’t have to use it.

Jameson moved back into position at the window, and while keeping watch, he pressed the button to call the kidnappers. He wasn’t certain they would answer, but they did on the first ring. He put the call on speaker so that Gabriel would be able to hear.

“You probably thought you’d gotten away,” a man immediately growled. “Now it’s time to pay.

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