Wyoming Christmas Ransom by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-13T20:50:16+00:00

Chapter Eleven

It was impossible. It was insane. But as she drove Cam’s truck toward the police station, Gracie couldn’t help but try to connect the very confusing dots.

“My uncle would have been like twenty years older than your wife at least.”

“Gracie, don’t be naive.”

Gracie scowled. “What? That’s gross.”

“Plenty of women have relationships with older men. Much older men. We’re not exactly close in age, and you did kiss me.”

She gave him a doleful look. “You are eight years older. Not an entire lifetime.” She shook her head, turning onto the road that would take them around Bent toward the Bent County Police Station. The route down Main Street would be quicker, but this way they might be able to avoid detection till they got to Laurel themselves. “I just can’t imagine my uncle being wrapped up in any of this. I can’t.”

“Maybe you’re right. Maybe this is all coincidence. But I can’t ignore a coincidence just because you’re related to it.”

He was right. Objectively she understood he was right. But she knew Uncle Geoff. He wasn’t the nicest guy, but a murderer? It didn’t add up.

“If we tell Laurel about what happened at the motel—”

“We cannot tell Laurel about this coincidence. This is her father. I wouldn’t say she idolizes him, but she certainly respects him and loves him. You can’t ask his kids to look into him being a killer.”

Will nodded, and Gracie tried to concentrate on her driving, but her gaze kept moving back to Will.

“We need to talk to a Carson,” he finally said.

Gracie wrinkled her nose. “Why would we talk to a Carson?”

“Paula was a Carson. She wanted to live in her hometown. I didn’t really have one of those, so I didn’t question it. It sounded nice, to have a hometown.”

“It is.”

“But she wasn’t close with her parents. I wasn’t either, so I didn’t question that, either. But if we put those things together—hometown but not being close with your family.”

“I hate to break it to you, but I love Bent and my uncle isn’t my favorite person.”

“Yeah. Yeah, but I spent two years looking into Paula’s present. Her job, the people she worked with. Her friends. I never went back to before we met because that didn’t make sense. But she wanted Bent even though she could have had a better job elsewhere. She wanted Bent even though she wasn’t particularly close with her parents. Maybe it’s nothing, but a Carson might be able to tell me that.”

“Okay. Which Carson? I have to warn you though, I’m not sure how far we’re going to get in a basically stolen truck, or with a Carson for that matter.”

“She’d go drinking with a group of second cousins sometimes. One was in the army or something and they’d get together when he was on leave. I’m not sure I ever met him since he wasn’t around much. Ty, I think. Ty Carson. You know where he lives?”

“Yes, but Ty Carson is Grady Carson’s cousin. Grady Carson is engaged to Laurel.

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