Texas Baby Pursuit by Margaret Daley

Author:Margaret Daley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-01T11:24:31+00:00

EIGHT

As Rachel drove back to Cimarron Trail from Guadalupe County later that day, Dallas’s mind swirled with all the clues and unanswered questions concerning the case. “If there had been any doubt about Lynn, we know for sure she isn’t the woman who abducted Brady nor the Rands’ five-month-old baby boy, Chris. She couldn’t be in two places at one time.”

“The kidnappers are bold, snatching their son Chris from his bedroom while he was napping. I wasn’t even sure it was part of the baby ‘shopping’ ring until Mrs. Rand talked about going to Baby and Things two days ago. It’s too late to go pay the owner a visit at his store.”

“But not his home. I had my office send me his house address. Let’s drop by and have a little chat with the man. It’s only half an hour away.” Dallas plugged where Steve Tucker lived into Rachel’s GPS system in the cruiser.

“Why these babies? It’s as if they are being selected for a reason. There’s nothing random about these kidnappings.”

“Like a designer baby ring. They’re picking the children from a list of certain traits. Mr. Rand is a professor at a college and Mrs. Rand is still on maternity leave from her law practice. Paul is an accountant. Lenora has a college degree in biology, and before she had Brady she worked at a scientific laboratory. We need to check on the backgrounds of the parents of the other babies abducted in Texas.”

“They’re going out looking for certain traits and attributes of a child. That means there’s a lot of money changing hands.” Rachel shuddered. “The ring must have many people working for it if this is the same one as the other places in Texas. I think we need another press conference tomorrow. If we tell people what’s going on, maybe someone will come forward with information that leads to the ringleader’s arrest. I’m going to send a deputy to both sets of parents to make sure they haven’t crossed paths somewhere else besides Baby and Things.”

“It might not be the store but the shopping center. Now that we have video feed from the billboard, we’ll need to go through it and follow Mrs. Rand’s footsteps there a couple of days ago.”

“That would be good to do tonight after we see the owner.”

“And eat dinner. We forgot about lunch.” Dallas grinned. “And I have the perfect place.”

“Oh, where?”

“It’s a surprise. I’ll drive after we see Steve Tucker.”

“Only if you promise me that I’m dressed appropriately for this mysterious eatery.”

He chuckled. “Of course. Seeing as we’re both dressed in our uniforms.” Feeling the urge to make their lives a little bit normal under the circumstances, he decided to take her to his favorite restaurant as...what? Partners? Friends? Or more? In three years, he hadn’t been interested in dating, but what he saw in Rachel made him want to rethink his decision to go it alone.

Ten minutes later, Rachel pulled up to the curb in an upper-middle-class subdivision in San Antonio.

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