Hunted by Suzanne Ferrell

Author:Suzanne Ferrell [Ferrell, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: A Romantic Suspence Novel
Publisher: Suzanne Ferrell
Published: 2012-07-01T03:00:00+00:00

* * * * *

Castello lifted the pile of e-mail and phone messages Leslie had laid on his desk after the task force meeting.

Two calls from his sisters in California, wishing him a Merry Christmas.

He shook his head. Every year they invited him out, and every year he chose to work. You’d think they’d get the message. He didn’t want happy family time. Never had.

When Katie was safe, he’d have to make time to call the girls and apologize, again.

An e-mail notification regarding Strict’s execution date and time. He set that to one side.

In all his years of protecting witnesses from scum like Strict, he’d never actually attended any of their executions. This time he might make an exception. He’d like nothing more than to watch the Prophet meet his maker.

As he read the next message, he sat straight in his chair. He reached for the file on his desk.

The guy’s name, he’d seen it before. He flipped through the file until he found it.

Matt Edgars.

He’d been the man listed on the hospital report as contact for Katie. The same man the nurses told the investigators had slept by her bed all that night. The same man they believe she left with.

He compared the date on the message to the one on the file. The message came in on Christmas Eve. The hospital admission was just before midnight on Christmas night.

Dammit. What the hell had happened to Katie? And who was this—he glanced at the note again—highway patrolman to whom she’d gone for help? Had someone from his office given the patrolman’s name to Strict’s man?

He was tired of being ten steps behind his own witness.

It was time to find this Matt Edgars and hopefully, Katie. Castello slipped the note into his pocket.

Frustration pushed him out of his chair. He grabbed his coat and headed out of his office.

“Leslie, I’m on my cell if anything important comes up,” he called as he stalked out the door.

“Where are you going, sir?” She followed him from the office, catching him as he stopped at the elevator.

He waited for the door to open, then stepped inside and pushed the lobby button. “I’m going hunting.”

* * * * *

Matt forced himself to stroll out of the Highway Patrol’s general headquarters and quite possibly his career. He’d spent more than an hour enduring the third-degree grilling by his captain about the ambush at his apartment. Each time Brown asked him about a possible tie-in with a case, Matt had suggested it was due to his involvement with the Russian Mafia case he’d worked on with Jake the year before.

But Brown hadn’t gotten to the rank of Captain by being stupid. When Matt hedged on information regarding the woman with him, Brown had stopped his questioning and sat back in his chair to study him.

Matt met his intense gaze without flinching. He’d already decided his first duty as both a law officer and a friend was to protect Katie.

“You’re not telling me everything, Edgars.”

Matt started to give him a vague answer, but the captain held up one hand to stop him.

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