The New Mexico Scoundrel by R. Scott Wallis

Author:R. Scott Wallis [Wallis, R. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 2125550229
Publisher: Bethwick Books
Published: 2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Brenda dreaded telling her new business partners about Georgia’s abduction. She was already distraught about not including them the day before. She nervously chewed the inside of her cheek on the walk from a parking spot on the street to the hotel two blocks away, Skyler leading the way.

When they got to the hotel they found it deathly quiet inside. The twins were side by side, leaning over a table, heads almost touching, looking at blueprints.

“Did you send the crew home for holiday break already?” Skyler asked. She took off her coat and placed it together with her purse on the cleanest part of the desk she could find.

“No,” a clearly exasperated Sullivan said. “It’s lunch. They take a full 90 minutes here. I have no idea where in hell they go.”

Skyler looked at Sullivan’s face for the first time and her eyes widened. “What happened to your face?”

Sullivan absently touched his sore black eye. “Just a little construction accident. I’m fine.”

“It looks horrible, honey.”

“He’s fine,” Carter said flatly.

“I’m fine,” Sullivan said. “What’s going on?”

Brenda cleared her throat and wrapped her arms around her body and hugged herself. “I have some bad news, boys. I’m going to just come out and say it. Georgia…she…Georgia has been kidnapped.”

“We don’t know that,” Skyler quickly added. “She is missing though. She disappeared late yesterday afternoon.”

“What?” Carter looked bewildered. “I don’t think I heard you correctly. What are you talking about—yesterday afternoon? Why are we just hearing about this?!”

Sullivan grabbed the back of a folding chair to steady himself. “I knew this was going to happen. I knew she wasn’t safe. How could we have left her alone?”

“She wasn’t alone,” Skyler said. “She had Brenda and two highly regarded, former New York City detectives watching out for her.”

The twins turned their outraged faces to Brenda. “No. No. Do not blame me,” she said. “I wasn’t hired to keep her safe. She walked right out of the back door of a dress shop and those useless Mallard people just let it happen.”

“She didn’t just saunter out the back door, Brenda,” Skyler said. She turned to Carter. “Georgia disappeared, leaving behind her coat, shirt, and purse. It was freezing outside. We have to believe that someone must have forced her out of that dressing room and into the alley. She wouldn’t have left with just a bra on. And without her phone, for goodness sake.”

“What are the police doing about this?” Sullivan asked.

“As far as we know, nothing. Not yet.” Skyler brushed sawdust off the top of a cooler and sat down. “The F.B.I. is involved. I mean, they were notified. But they’re not moving on it yet. No demands have been made, and it hasn’t been 48 hours yet.”

“We have to wait 48 hours before someone will take this seriously?” Carter exploded. “First someone breaks into the poor woman’s house and trashes the place, then someone sets off a bomb at the Christmas party, and someone stalks all of us from the woods near our house.

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