The Prodigal Son Returns by Jan Drexler

Author:Jan Drexler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2013-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A scared rabbit, that was what he was.

A few months ago, he would have gone after that Packard. His own car would have followed that rat to his hole and finished this business, and that would have been the end of it. But here he was, stuck in this backward place.

Bram slammed his hand against the side of the buggy in frustration, making Partner jump into a panicked gallop.

“Whoa, boy, it’s okay.”

The horse settled down, but Bram’s nerves still jangled.

He had let himself get into the worst position he could imagine. No car, no backup, no telephone, a woman to worry about...

At the thought of Ellie, he cast a glance backward along the road, where the moonlight stretched its silent way behind him. No lights cast a glow under the overhanging trees, and no motor sound echoed in the still night. Would she be safe?

If anything happened to her...

The rising heat found a focus. Kavanaugh. The man loved killing, whether he pulled the trigger or ordered one of his men to do the job, and he struck without warning. No open spray of hot bullets from a tommy gun for him. The snake preferred to kill with a derringer.

Bram pressed against the lump of the pistol in his pocket. With luck, he could protect himself if Kavanaugh found him, but what about Ellie and the children? What about her parents?

The heat against Kavanaugh was quenched in a dash of ice. Before he’d come, they had been safe. Yeah, sure, the gangsters were in the area, but they never would have thought of searching among these peaceful farms if it wasn’t for him. He was the one who had put them in danger.

Rising irritation hammered against his tactics so far. He had established his cover, but now he needed to use the cover to do more than just hide. Kavanaugh was around, for sure, but it was time for Bram to be on the other side of the table. No more scared rabbit for him. He would become the fox and hunt out that snake.

Should he put a call in to Peters? The FBI agent would love to know he had found Kavanaugh, but then what? All Bram could tell him was that he had seen Kavanaugh in Goshen. Peters wouldn’t be able to act on such a slim lead, not when things were so hot in Chicago.

Besides, if he contacted Peters, he’d increase the risk that his location would be known, and it could get out to the wrong people.

Bram shifted on the buggy seat, his skin crawling. Kavanaugh wasn’t his only enemy, or his worst. Someone had tipped off Kavanaugh about the raid in April, and it had to be someone in Peters’s office. If he was premature in contacting the Chicago office, he’d have to leave the area quickly and quietly. No goodbyes, no explanations, no contact...not even Ellie.

The scent of her as he had held her close filled his mind, and he shut his eyes against the memory.

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