The Marshal's Hostage by DELORES FOSSEN

Author:DELORES FOSSEN [FOSSEN, DELORES]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Dallas could do nothing more than watch and wait. Something he wasn’t very good at doing.

Joelle must have felt the same because she was pacing the small observation room and had been doing that for the past hour, ever since Dallas’s boss had insisted that’s where they had to stay.

Because their presence could compromise the interrogation.

The problem was their suspect—aka the slimeball Dallas had chased down in the woods by Rocky Creek—wasn’t saying anything so there was nothing to compromise. Every time Marshal Saul Warner had asked him a question, the man had mumbled that he wanted his attorney. Well, the attorney was on his way, but Dallas figured the lawyer would just tell him to keep up the silent treatment.

The same must have occurred to Joelle because her nerves were showing. It wasn’t just the pacing. She was nibbling on her lip and looking many steps past the uneasy stage. With reason. She could have died today. Again. Dallas was used to facing danger, but this was probably eating away at her.

It also didn’t help that Owen was just one interview room over from them. He was waiting for his lawyer as well to be questioned about the latest incident at Rocky Creek. Saul would do that interview, too, since he had specifically said he wanted Dallas and his brothers to stay away from the suspects.

“You okay?” Dallas asked her.

She didn’t stop pacing or lip nibbling, but she did glance at him. “Who is he and why would he try to kill us?”

Those were million-dollar questions, but Dallas didn’t have any good answers. He’d already suggested that someone had hired the moron to set the fire.

Or rather the smoke.

The fire was contained in the two metal trash cans where someone had placed ingredients that had essentially made smoke bombs. Crude but effective. The smoke could have indeed killed Joelle and him if they hadn’t escaped through the window.

So was this some kind of warning for them to back off the investigation?

Maybe. And when this SOB started talking, that was one of the things Dallas wanted to know, right after he found out who’d hired this guy.

“Sarah and Rudy seemed mighty helpful,” Dallas remarked. Not really answers to Joelle’s questions, but it helped him to work out everything that was already whirling through his head. “A possible pretense, but we do have other suspects—Lindsey and Owen.”

Joelle made a sound of agreement and then repeated it after several moments. Despite Rudy’s and Sarah’s opportunities to have set the smoke bombs and their somewhat lack of cooperation with the investigation, they still weren’t Dallas’s number one suspect.

Owen had that honor.

Dallas got up from the table where he’d been sitting and went closer to Joelle. Probably a bad idea. With their nerves zinging, any closeness and touch could make things worse. Well, worse personally, anyway. But he was just sick and tired of seeing that troubled look on her face.

He pulled her into his arms.

She made another sound, this time of slight surprise.

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