Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
Sabrina felt her jaw drop. “How did you know?”
Henry’s eyes were cold as he examined the tires. “Information is the most valuable asset we have, Sabrina. Even out here. Bliss has a high percentage of what I would call vulnerable citizens. Many of our people have pasts that might create problems later on. Some of them violent ones. Nate formed a committee to monitor these kinds of situations so we can handle them properly. I’m on the committee.”
“Because you used to be CIA. I like it. You dug into Wyatt’s background when he started living here?” Sawyer asked, apparently untroubled with the snooping into other people’s lives aspect. “You could have mentioned it at the meeting this afternoon.”
“We talked about it and decided it’s Wyatt’s secret to tell,” Henry confessed. “I also thought we had a little time.”
“Have you been spying on Wyatt?” Sabrina knew Henry had worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, but even though they joked about him being a badass, she’d thought he was like an analyst or something. The man in front of her hadn’t been a paper pusher.
“Spying?” His lips tugged up, and he looked closer to normal, as though he realized his mask had slipped. “I would call it gathering intelligence. What we know would only ever be used to help. Wyatt’s brother is dangerous to everyone, but especially to him. Doc asked us to look into his situation after the first night. It was obvious what had happened with Wyatt. So I dug a little further. It stood to reason Wayne Kemp wouldn’t have allowed his brother to go without some kind of leverage over him. Wyatt knows far too much. I found the missing persons report for a man named Dennis Hill. He’d been playing around on the outer edges of the Horde for years. The police took him in for questioning about a triple homicide they believe Wayne at the very least ordered. Dennis held the line in the interview. He promised he didn’t see anything, but he was scheduled to take a lie detector test three days after he went missing.”
“Wyatt wouldn’t have killed him.” The choices he’d had to make. She couldn’t imagine it. He’d had to find the will to break out of the only world he’d ever known.
She couldn’t lose him. She loved him. Loved them both.
“I know.” Henry’s expression had softened as he watched Sabrina. “I know for a fact he didn’t kill Dennis. I know where he stashed Dennis.”
Sawyer’s jaw dropped. “You do? You know you could have mentioned it.”
“Like I said, the information is only ever used to help our people. Up until today, that information was something for Wyatt to deal with,” Henry replied surely. “Now I’ll use it to get him out of trouble, though I would rather talk to him. I want to let him decide how to handle the situation.”
“No.” Sawyer’s head shook. “You’re going to tell the police everything you know and get him out of this.”
Henry sighed. “Part of being in charge of an operation like this is holding firm to one’s ethics. Before I offered to help, I made everyone involved sign an agreement. The information we have is sensitive and only to be used if the person the information pertains to wants us to use it. Think of it as our way of opening up options to vulnerable citizens.”
Sabrina wasn’t hearing it. She didn’t give a fuck about ethics. She didn’t care about Dennis Hill, or honestly whatever Wyatt thought. He was right. He’d put her in this position by making her fall in love with him, and now he had to deal with the consequences. And the men on this committee would deal with her, too. “Henry Flanders, you will take whatever information you have and hand it over to the Creede police force and the CBI, and if you don’t I swear I will salt the earth with your bones. Metaphorically, of course, but I swear it will hurt. You think you like to protest? I can do it, too, friend, and I’ll ensure your wife knows exactly what you’re doing and that you allowed an innocent man to die. That’s what we’re talking here. If they manage to get Wyatt to jail in Colorado Springs, who’s waiting for him in there?”
Sawyer seemed to pick up her line of argument. He stood beside her, a hand on her shoulder. “I assure you there are Horde members serving time right now, and they’ll be more than willing to do the boss’s business. Or if Wayne wants to keep his hands somewhat clean, this would be a good way to do it. Think about it. What would be better for a rival MC member than shivving Wayne’s brother? It’s a good way to get some revenge.”
So it could be more than Horde members out to get Wyatt.