Chapter 76
Madison came back in after Dom had informed Daniel what had happened and what he could remember about what happened.
They would both have to give official statements this morning, at some point, too.
Daniel called in the rest of the troops he could get there.
Including Gunnar, who was just up the road somewhere, with that woman of his and her family.
Jake grabbed Gunnar on his way. The other man was unsteady as hell, but he was up and moving around.
Planning his damned wedding, from what Dom had heard lately.
Gunnar had his woman at his side. The future Missus Gunnar was giving him orders about not overdoing it. Gunnar just gave a smirk, when she had her hands on him. Gunnar looked at her like he was the luckiest man on earth.
Dom understood—he had a shrew of his dreams floating around this mansion somewhere. He definitely understood.
Gunnar sent Powell off with Bonnie, then turned toward Dom. “Heard the TSP has been looking for your ass all night. Where the hell were you?”
“Got ambushed after we left here last night. We footed it to Madison’s; she drove us out of town. Here I am. We snuck in the back way.” A basic rundown, but hell, that was exactly what had happened. It was damned frustrating to not have more than that.
“Glad to see you alive. Got a bit worried there,” Jake said.
“Hell, I’m fast on my feet. Did just fine.”
“Now…let’s figure out what this is all about,” Gunnar said.
“It’s…probably the dead cops thing,” Madison said behind him.
The room got silent. Dom shifted, and looked at Madison, who stood there in borrowed sweatpants and a softball T-shirt, holding Miguel’s baby on her hip and looking beyond beautiful. “What dead cops thing?”
“Probably the missing or dead cops in Texas going back thirty-five years.” Madison looked at them all like they were clueless. “Hope put it together already. Like over a year ago.”
“Forty-five, actually. I thought I was the only one who knew,” Hope added. “You were the one who hacked my private server, weren’t you? I made a list of possibilities of people who could and would know about it. You were pretty high on the list, you know.”
“Yes. I am seriously sorry about that. But…well…I needed to confirm something against what I had on my private server and I found what I needed, too. Your security was really tight, I only got in because you told me your password…that night.”
“You owe me one later,” Hope told her.
“Noted.”
“If you two ever get involved in a life of crime, I am so moving to another planet,” Jake told them both. Dom agreed. “What exactly do you nerds know that we don’t?”
Dom snorted at that.
“Don’t answer that the way you are thinking,” Gunnar said. “We know you know more than we do. It’s just a given.”
“You two need to sit down and explain exactly what you’ve found,” Daniel said, bluntly. He looked at Hope. “Does Heather know about this?”
Hope’s guilty look was all Dom needed to know.
“Heather is not my keeper on everything, you know. I am an adult—in case you missed it.”
Daniel gave a weird choking sound. “I haven’t missed it at all.”
“Hope. Time to tell us what you know,” Miguel said, taking his daughter from Madison’s arms. “So that we can finally end this once and for all.”