Dallas Fire & Rescue: The Darkness Within Him (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Ryker Townsend FBI Profiler Series Book 4) by Jordan Dane

Author:Jordan Dane [Dane, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-07-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Hyatt Regency - Dallas

Next morning

Ryker Townsend

After learning about Max Whitaker from Detective Hanover, my mind reeled with questions about Evangeline’s past and how such a man could cross her path…and stay. After a late night email session with Sinead Royce, she worked her magic and responded to my many questions. She contacted me by video conferencing the next morning.

“Evangeline Cross remarried, Ryker.” Sinead wore black framed glasses that dwarfed her delicate face. She stared back at me from my laptop with a somber expression. “She married Anton Cross in Little Rock, Arkansas. He even adopted her children. Bram would’ve been only six at the time. It’s possible he never knew his real father.”

“How old was Bram when they arrested his biological father?”

“Only four. Lord knows his mother had plenty of reasons to keep that a secret, from anyone. There are dark holes where I can’t find anything on her. She went off the grid, big time.”

“Did you find any evidence that Whitaker contacted her…or tried to find her?”

“She filed a restraining order on him in New Orleans where they first lived, but after that, she disappeared and didn’t pop up until Kansas City three years later when she married Anton. She probably didn’t trust the local cops to protect her and the kids with a paper order.”

“Did Max Whitaker ever beat her? Were there any signs of abuse against her or the children?”

“I only found one police incident for a family disturbance, but you know how it is. Not every injury gets reported.”

“How long did she stay married to Anton?”

“He had a heart attack and died a year after they were married.”

“I’m sure it took a lot for her to trust Anton, enough to let him into her family circle. To lose him, without warning, could have hit her hard emotionally.”

“Yeah, very sad. She moved after that without leaving a trail until the day police got a 9-1-1 call from her neighbors about gunshots.” Sinead shivered. “It’s hard to imagine a life without people to trust. I can’t tell if she was on the run, trying to protect her kids, or maybe she snapped and had enough of the isolation. Those poor kids.”

“A very unstable lifestyle.”

“I don’t get why she ran, Ryker. Max Whitaker was in prison. He couldn’t get to her for years. Why did she run and move so much?”

“Some people have demons no one can see. I get your point. For a rational mind, her behavior doesn’t hold up as normal. Only she could’ve explained it. I wonder how it affected Bram.”

Evangeline had uprooted her family to stay on the run. The instability would’ve been hard on the children emotionally and their education would’ve suffered. She must’ve been desperate to find something or run away from her life, but how had a drifter’s life affected Bram?

Worse, he could’ve sabotaged his own recollections if he’d blocked out something terrible that happened between him and his biological father. Even if Bram had been honest about not remembering, I wasn’t sure I could trust his past recollections or his scent memory.

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