Splashdown: A Christian Contemporary Romance with Suspense (Dangerous Series Book 3) by Linda K. Rodante

Author:Linda K. Rodante [Rodante, Linda K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lone Mesa Publishing
Published: 2016-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

She stilled. The hand dropped from her mouth.

“Shh. Come with me.” John dragged her farther from the tent. “You okay?” When she nodded, he looked over her shoulder. Sharee followed his glance.

Detective Richards hauled Lynn out of the tent. “What do you think you’re doing?” His voice carried to them. Other people from the camp began to crowd closer.

“You had your gun drawn.” Lynn looked shocked.

“Yeah, and I should have had the cuffs out, too. For you. What do you think you’re doing? Besides interfering with an investigation.”

“I was going to keep him occupied until you came.”

Richards looked at Carpenter, and his eyes rolled. He glanced back at Lynn. “You have no idea what you’re doing.”

Lynn snatched her arm free. “I couldn’t get hold of you or your partner. I left a message.”

“Some message: ‘I know who Lily’s kidnapper is.’”

“I told you where he was, and you’re here, aren’t you?”

“Lynn.” Sharee protested. What was her friend thinking? “I said you should wait for Detective Richards.”

“I didn’t want the man to get away. He—”

“What if you were trapped with a murderer?” Richards’ cut across her.

“Well, I…I would have…”

“You failed to leave the person’s name or give us any other information.” His glare would light a pile of dry leaves.

Lynn’s mouth opened, but Sharee put a warning hand on her arm.

“Right. Think about it.” Richards glanced at the other people standing around. “No one’s to go near that tent.”

“I’ll check it out.” Detective Carpenter pulled latex gloves from his pocket and turned to the tent.

“All right,” Richards said in a loud voice. “Everyone go back to what you were doing. Nothing else is going on here.” Then he muttered under his breath, “Nothing else better go on here.”

He nodded at John. “Thanks for the help, Jergenson.”

“Anytime.”

He turned back to Lynn. “What makes you think this guy—whoever he is—is guilty?”

“Lily told me.”

He frowned. “When I talked to her, she had nothing to say.”

“That’s because you’re intimidating.”

The detective’s eyes darkened. His mouth pulled into a narrow line.

Lynn tossed her head, the long hair shifting back over her shoulder. “She told me when I went to the hospital today. I think it threw her that her mom had some kind of relapse. I couldn’t get you. I tried twice and called Detective Carpenter, too. So, I decided to come here. I’m not stupid. I wouldn’t let him know I knew anything. I just thought if he did try to leave, there might be something I could do to keep him here until you got here.”

“And how were you planning on doing that?” The detective turned to John. “Whatever they think they’re doing, it needs to stop. Now.”

John nodded, and Richard’s glance ran from Lynn to Sharee and back.

Lynn put her hands on her hips and started to say something, but received a dark look from the detective. She pressed her lips together.

“Am I understood?”

Sharee gave a quick nod then tilted her head at Lynn. Come on, girlfriend, agree here.

“This is a Sheriff’s Department investigation,” Richards said.

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