SHATTERED by ALICE SHARPE

Author:ALICE SHARPE, [SHARPE,, ALICE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2014-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“It’s Peter Jacks,” Nate said.

Sarah felt like slapping her forehead. “I didn’t really recognize him. I should have, but I didn’t.”

“People look different when they’re dead. Besides, it’s been several years since you saw him, right?”

“Over ten. He was just a kid I babysat occasionally. He gave no indication he recognized me, either. How did you figure out who he was?”

“He looked familiar to me. I talked myself into a few minutes of internet use while I was renting the truck. I found a photograph taken of Thomas’s family leaving his funeral, and there, front and center, was his older brother, Peter.”

“So he wanted to kill you for, what, revenge? Because you were at the mall when his brother went berserk? But you didn’t kill Thomas. He killed himself. Why go after you?”

“I’m not sure,” Nate admitted. He hadn’t thought it all the way through yet.

“Does this mean he killed my father, too?”

“I don’t know.”

“How would Peter Jacks know you were in Nevada unless my father told him?”

“He wouldn’t.”

“No, and my father looked as though he was caught coming home or leaving his house, not like he’d been in the middle of a heart-to-heart chat with Peter.” She gestured at the road ahead and added, “Can’t you go any faster?”

“Sure I can,” he said and sped up. The nervous energy emanating from Sarah permeated the cab.

“Did you find a gunshot wound on Peter’s body?” she asked.

“No,” Nate said. “But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. I could hardly strip him.” The truth was, Nate had been happy to have an explanation for the morning’s disaster, but now he saw that Sarah made some valid points. “After we talk to the Shatterhorn police, I want to arrange to see a couple of other people. Your dad’s notebook mentioned conversations but didn’t really specify content. Maybe the people he spoke with will remember what it was about. And maybe one of them will know if there was contact between your dad and the Jacks family.”

“You may not be able to arrest anyone in Nevada, but you still approach things as the cop you are,” she said. “Do you think they’re involved with Dad’s murder?”

Nate kept his eyes on the road ahead. “Impossible to say. Until we know for sure, we have to assume the people who have your mother were at your father’s house yesterday, busily trying to kill us. We’d better concentrate on keeping a few steps ahead of this guy when we get to Reno. How are you supposed to deliver the money?”

“He gave me a phone number to call before three o’clock. He said he’ll tell me where he stashed my mother and we’ll make an exchange.”

Nate glanced at the dashboard clock. They were about twenty miles from Reno and it was after one. “We have to make time to hit a coin dealer first. You can’t just shovel out silver coins in front of Bellows.”

“I’ll have to call him first and make sure I know exactly how much Mom owes him.

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