Harlequin Intrigue June 2018--Box Set 2 of 2 by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488033841
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Beth returned to Ty’s place after sundown on Monday night to find the bay doors of the shop open and Hemi trotting out to meet her. The dog escorted her down the drive, barking joyfully but not getting too close to her motorcycle. She cut the engine as Ty stepped out of the garage, using a rag to wipe his greasy hands.

The day had been terrible. The tip was bad, the location wrong and the result was that fifteen heavily armed FBI agents had startled a very nice older couple from their bed. The rest of the day had been spent making apologies and trying and failing to bring in their informant, Quinton Ford.

There had also been a break in the surrogacy case. Police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had picked up Elsie Weaver, the first of the women to go missing. Beth’s supervisor had flown out there and discovered that Elsie had never been abducted. According to the sixteen-year-old, she had been to the clinic in November of last year but that visit had nothing to do with her decision to run away with her twenty-three-year-old boyfriend, now being held in the Santa Fe jail on a growing list of charges.

Beth had gone back to Betty Mills, the former health clinic administrator and Dr. Hauser’s accomplice there. Mills had been transferred to the larger facility in the neighboring city of Darabee. Betty had been less than cooperative. Her plea deal had gone out the window when she failed to mention that tribal police detective Ava Hood’s cover had been blown. Mills had let Hood walk right into a trap that nearly got her killed. Eventually, Mills verified for Beth that Elsie Weaver had never been one of their girls, as Mills called her, simply the inspiration, because when Elsie disappeared, no one cared. No one looked. She was listed in a database and forgotten. That gave Hector the idea of a simple way to raise the funds he needed to bring their facility into the twenty-first century.

Hector had approached a colleague in Phoenix who ran a fertility clinic. Then a contact was made with Kuznetsov’s representative. The tribe’s gang was enlisted to capture and deliver, and just like that, they were in business.

Beth rolled the bike onto its kickstand and slid off the seat. Beth still did not wholly understand Ty’s role in all this. He was an enigma. May Redhorse’s second son was not at all what she had expected. He had clearly moved to protect his brother Kee’s fiancée from her captivity and, if Officer Redhorse was to be believed, to save Jake and the infant he and his wife adopted from attack. Yet they had him on driving the recaptured Kacey Doka back to the Russians. She suspected there was more to that story than what she had read in the deposition, but they didn’t need it because his blood at the crime scene was the hook that guaranteed Ty’s compliance, as much as that was possible.

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