The Deputy's Baby by Tyler Anne Snell

Author:Tyler Anne Snell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-04T16:18:31+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Are you kidding me?” Suzy said, twenty minutes after their meeting in the conference room had ended.

Henry didn’t bother keeping his voice low. There was no point. Not when the department around them was one long stream of bustling noise. “You said it yourself. There’s a good chance that the department will be attacked tonight! And you want to send me home? I know I’m technically new, but you’ve seen my résumé, you know what I’ve done.” He let his hands fly around the air in front of him, physically broadcasting his frustration. “You know what I can do.”

Suzy kept her expression tight and guarded. She was in planning mode. He’d caught her right before she was headed in to giving her troops the battle plan.

The troops he’d been told he wasn’t included in.

“Listen, I know you’re more than capable of helping, but I think the best way you can do that is by not being in or around the department.” She pointed outside her office.

For a moment Henry thought he was being told to leave.

She continued. “Travis Newman would never have talked to us, at least not in time if there really is an attack. He did talk to Gage Coulson. What if he isn’t the only one who’s a part of this who thinks that’s who you really are? Every minute you are here, you are further risking us losing the ability to use that if we need to again. As much as I admire and empathize with what you have done and been through, the fact of the matter is that right now the department needs Gage. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t even have an idea of what might be happening.”

Henry ran a hand through his hair. He cursed.

Suzy didn’t mind.

“What about Calvin?” he had to ask. “And Michael? I think it’s pretty safe to say they both know that Gage was just a cover. What if that’s already blown and Travis was just the last to know? Even in the criminal world, there are just some people you don’t trust with the important details. For all we know, this could be a giant trap. One you are asking me to leave you all to walk into.”

Suzy had been indulging him up until that moment, he realized seconds too late.

“I am not asking you do to anything. I am ordering you to leave.” She leaned forward, resting her fists on the desktop. It was a power move. One she pulled off well. “If this is a trap, then having abled-bodied men and women out there will only help us in the long run. But you’re right, Travis may not know whatever plan is out there. Heck, we could all be jumping to one big conclusion. And if that’s the case, I’m going to need you to be Gage again to figure out what really is going on. Which is why you’re going to leave your uniform off and lie low until we figure out what is and isn’t a plan or trap.

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