Delores Fossen Sweetwater Ranch Box Set: Maverick Sheriff\Cowboy Behind the Badge\Rustling Up Trouble by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin

Chapter Eleven

Well, this day sure as heck wasn’t going as Tucker had planned. Rhonda was on the run again, and he was no closer to solving the case than he had been when he’d woken up. Something had to give, and it had to give soon.

“Maybe we can catch up with Rhonda,” Laine suggested. “She couldn’t have gotten far.”

“Not we,” he instantly corrected. “No way do I want you out there trying to hunt down a suspect.”

And since Reed was the only deputy in the sheriff’s office, Tucker didn’t want him out there, either. He was about to ask Reed to call for someone from the jail to look for Rhonda, but then his phone rang, and he saw the woman’s name on the screen.

“Where are you, Rhonda?” Tucker demanded the moment he answered.

“I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t stay there. I heard you talking to Darren, and I figured he was setting me up to take the fall for him. Or to be attacked. I don’t want to die like Dawn.”

Tucker groaned. “No one was going to attack you while you were here.”

He hoped. Still, Tucker couldn’t rule out the possibility that Rhonda had a legitimate concern. Laine’s expression let him know that she felt the same way. Darren had the means necessary to go after anyone who could link him to Dawn’s murder, and maybe Laine’s ex thought Rhonda fell into that category.

“My offer stands,” he added to Rhonda. “I can arrange for you to go to a safe house.”

It wasn’t a totally selfless offer on his part. Tucker could send her to a place where someone could keep an eye on her if it turned out she’d had some part in the baby farms. A place where he could also keep her alive if she was innocent in all of this.

“I don’t want your safe house,” she insisted. “I just want to be safe, and I’d been doing a good job of that on my own. I hope I didn’t make a stupid mistake coming to see you,” Rhonda went on, but then she stopped, mumbled some profanity. “I think someone’s following me again. I need to go.”

Before Tucker could say anything that might stop her, Rhonda hung up. He immediately hit Redial and tried to get her back on the line, but the call went straight to voice mail. She’d no doubt turned off her phone.

Great.

Tucker didn’t want to know how long it’d be before he could speak to her and coax her into coming back in for questioning. And besides, maybe it wasn’t a good idea bringing her back if someone was truly following her.

Of course, that if was just that. An if. Rhonda could be lying through her teeth about everything, especially her lack of involvement in Dawn’s murder.

“You still need to talk to Hague,” Laine reminded him.

Yeah, because Rhonda’s cousin had some things to explain that might shed some light on this case. Or at least some light on Hague himself. Tucker located his number, and the man answered on the first ring.

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