Six-Gun Showdown by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Hell.

Jax wanted to dismiss all this as a really bad coincidence. But he couldn’t. The Moonlight Strangler had admitted he had another woman on his radar. A blonde.

Like Belinda.

And Jax wouldn’t put it past the killer to go after yet someone else close to his family.

“What is it?” Belinda asked, obviously picking up on the bad vibes.

Jax wasn’t sure how much he should tell her. This could all be part of the killer’s sick game, a ruse. Or Belinda could be lying to get some attention from him. But he couldn’t take that chance.

“The Moonlight Strangler could have been the person in your house.”

Belinda’s breath rushed out, and she looked ready to keel over. All right. That reaction looked pretty darn genuine.

“You’re responsible for this,” Belinda muttered several moments later. And she was looking at Paige when she said it.

“How is Paige responsible?” Jax asked, huffing. But Paige wasn’t huffing. She was a little thunderstruck.

“She drew him here.” Belinda made it seem as if the answer was obvious. Her anger was plenty obvious, as well. “He knew Paige was alive. He must have seen her like I did.”

Belinda froze, and her hand flew to her mouth. Jax got a really bad feeling that Belinda wasn’t talking about having seen Paige the day before.

“How long have you known I was alive?” Paige demanded, and it was a demand. Jax wanted to know the same thing.

Belinda glanced around, swallowed hard. “Two weeks. But I wasn’t sure it was her. I only suspected.”

Jax had to get his teeth unclenched. “And you didn’t tell me?”

“I said I didn’t know for sure, and I didn’t want you to, well, get your hopes up or anything.” Belinda looked everywhere but at him. Her attention finally settled on Paige. “I bought this facial recognition software. I had a feeling in my gut you were still alive, so I started doing internet searches. The software matched your face to a photo that someone had taken at a store opening in Houston.”

Jax turned to Paige to see if that could have happened. And she nodded. “A toy store. But I didn’t know they’d taken my picture. I arrived there just as they were doing the ribbon cutting, and I guess I got in the shot.”

“Why were you there?” Leland asked.

“To buy Matthew something. I was going to have Cord give it to him, but Cord wasn’t going to say it was from me.”

A toy.

Damn.

“I wasn’t sure it was her,” Belinda repeated.

Yeah, she had been. Jax could see it in her eyes. Belinda hadn’t wanted him to know that Paige was alive because he would have gone after her and found her so she could give him answers.

Now he had those answers, but they weren’t ones that Jax liked.

“I know this is a lot to take in,” Leland said, “but it sounds as if Belinda could be in real danger.”

Jax could add another “yeah” to that, too.

“Belinda can’t go back to your place,” Paige insisted at the same moment Jericho turned to Mack.

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