Broken Road
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Then it hit her, the one thing her sister had left just for her to find. It must be what Dutch wanted all along.
Chapter Thirty Seven
“What do you mean your sister stole something and he’s still alive?”
“I think that is the reason he killed her and wanted me so bad. It’s not the debt but what she stole from him,” Devil panted as she ripped the apartment to pieces. “Whatever it is it has him scared that we might have it.”
“What are you looking for?” Winthrop asked, looking over the thing Devil threw around.
“Something, anything that looks important,” she said as she looked into a vase and moved it aside.
“If it was something so important you wanted to hide it then wouldn’t you hide it where no one would look?” Winthrop asked her.
Devil turned around slowly. “Yeah?”
“Then you would hide it in plain sight knowing they would over look it.”
She beamed up at him. “That’s it! If she was hiding it in plain site then even Lilla would know where it is! Go get her from the crib and bring her here.”
A giggling little Lilla was placed her arms and smiled up at her. She had been starting to teeth and she held a sopping wet little plush star in her hand. The same one she had had before.
Devil handed Lilla back to Winthrop and took the star from her. Lilla shocked that her mother would take her toy away began to cry, but instead Devil gave her the baby chew toy that had been on the bed.
With shaking hand Devil ripped the toy in half and tore out the fluff inside. And there she found a little black flash drive marked DUTCH.
“We have him!” Devil squealed in delight, clutching the flash drive in her hand.
Winthrop glance at what was in her hand and felt a chill go down his spine. “Is that what I think it is?”
“My best guess says Wylde made a copy of all his data and put it on here. We got everything we could need to go after him!” Devil said already making plans.
“Whoa there!” Winthrop said throwing his free arm around her to pull her against him. “You are not going to go after anyone. I’ll call Davis and Jack and tell them to come get it. You are not going to pull another danger thing like you did with that plane.”
Devil pouted for a moment before she sighed. “I really wanted to get him this time, but I guess your right. I wouldn’t want to die this time.”
He kissed her temple. “Thank you for listening this time.”
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Three week later…
Giving her a grin the two agents greeted her on the porch. It had been three weeks since she gave them the evidence, two weeks since they did a full scale raid on Dutch’s safety house and one week since she had had the pleasure of being at his trial and watched Dutch sentenced to death for his crimes of her family and far more. It had been far from easy to get that snake, but finally with a bit of help from Royal the army had gotten their hands on him.
“How ya been Miss Devil,” asked Jake, the one with the buzz cut.
“Its all been like a dream to be honest. I still can’t believe it’s all over now.”
“We’re glad we got him. Without you the case would have closed again and this time sealed.” The blonde one Davis took off his glass and looked at her with dark grey eyes. “I’m glad you’re here for Winthrop.”
“We’re all under his unit in the last war. He was a good leader and a friend.”
“Would you like to come in and see him?” Devil asked with a bright smile.
They hesitated and then shook their heads. “We best be on our way.”
Devil grabbed one hand of each man and pulled them inside the ranch house. “Don’t be silly, he’ll love to see you!”
“I really don’t think so Miss, there is a reason he left,” Davis said, looking faintly panicked. “He didn’t want to see any of us again after the attack.”
Devil paused and turned to look at them. “Attack?”
The men froze in place, staring over her head.
“Yes, the attack on our bunker the night before all of us were to go home,” a deep voice drawled from behind her.
Devil winced and turned around to face him. Winthrop stood against the doorway to the kitchen with Lilla in his arms, his face a grim mask.
“I lost three men that night and I almost didn’t come home either. I still have nightmares of it time to time. I have nothing to hide.” He smiled faintly. “I have my past much like you do. But it’s in the past and doesn’t matter now.” He looked over her head and nodded to the men. “Good to see you boys after so many years. What do you do now?”
“We are SI, special intelligence, now Captain. But we still do some lancing for the OPS.”
Winthrop really smiled at that. “So you were the boys who got Dutch huh? Nice work.”
“Thank you, sir.”
Devil smiled at them again and asked if they would like to stay for lunch. Davis and Jack agreed the moment they saw Lilla and she reached for them.
It was the perfect ending to her nightmare, Devil thought. Finally she would have her family and who else knew what was in the future for her?
But Celia was next on her list. Devil grinned and wondered if Grange was up for the job.
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