WITNESS PROTECTION 02: The Baby Rescue

Author:Margaret Daley [Daley, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2013-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

An hour later Colton hung up from talking to Quinn. “He’s getting the search warrant and should be here soon.”

“Did Janice come back with him or is she staying at the lodge?” Lisette leaned forward in the car and rolled her shoulders, then kneaded her nape.

“She’ll check out the night shift and come back to Denver tomorrow morning unless we need her. So far they haven’t discovered anyone who knows the light man, but they sell the coats in the gift shop at the lodge.”

“Not that I haven’t enjoyed sharing a few field stories―yours are much more interesting than mine―but I’m ready to pick up this Buddy Smith and find out what Saunders is planning. I hate the thought that Baby C. is being cared for by that man.” Lisette shivered, hugging her arms.

“The sun might be back out now, but we’re in the shade. You want me to turn the heat on?”

“It’s not the cold so much as thinking about the child’s life at stake, but I’ve got to admit it’s getting chilly in here.”

Colton reached to turn the key in the ignition. The past hour they’d exchanged information on the different jobs they had worked on, but they never went further into the past. It was as if they had silently agreed their childhoods were off-limits. He wanted it that way, but at the same time he wanted to know more about hers. He knew he couldn’t have it both ways, but he felt a connection to her because of their childhoods. Although different, he sensed she’d been as lonely as he had.

“What if we’ve been here all this time and Smith isn’t in the house?” Lisette put her hands up at a nearby vent to warm them.

“That might be the case, but even if he isn’t there, we’ll go in with the search warrant and see what we can find.”

“I want the man. I have a score to settle. My head still throbs, and Neil won’t be out of the hospital for another day.”

Colton grinned, picturing Lisette trying to take down the man over six feet eight or so inches while she was no more than five-four. “If he’s as big as you said, I want to see that.”

“Do I detect amusement in your voice?”

He indicated an inch with his thumb and forefinger. “Just a little.”

A movement at the front right window of Smith’s house caught Colton’s attention. “He’s opening the blinds.” He glimpsed a large shadow, then nothing. “Maybe he’s getting up.”

“Sleeping in. What is that?”

“Something we don’t get when on a case.”

“Let’s get back to that amusement in your voice. I can take you down. It isn’t size but technique.”

“But size is an advantage.”

She rolled her eyes. “Why do men—” She riveted her attention to the porch. “He’s coming out.”

Colton watched the massive man, probably three hundred pounds of muscles, lock his front door. Dressed in jeans, boots and a heavy overcoat with a backpack slung over his shoulder, Smith wasn’t going to get his mail.

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