Page 205 of Forever Never
She shifted in his lap. “You need bait.”
“Essentially yes.”
“No.” Brick’s voice rang out, silencing everyone else.
“Can I speak to you outside,Sergeant?” Remi demanded.
“You can’t be okay with this,” Brick said to the chief as Remi headed for the front door.
Chief Ford met his heated gaze. There was a warning in her eyes and something else. Something like fear.
He followed Remi out into the lousy, damp spring air.
“Absolutely fucking not,” he said before she could even open her pretty mouth.
“Hear me out.”
“There’s no way you’re taking their side.”
“I’m not taking anyone’s side over you,” she said, huddling deeper into the coat she’d snatched off the rack inside. It was his.
“You are not to put yourself at risk, Remington. I couldn’t take it.”
He crowded her against the railing, needing the proximity to her.
“What if there was no real danger?”
He felt a nagging sensation. An irritation between his shoulder blades as if they were being watched.
“It makes sense,” she began. “From a big picture level.”
“Dangling you in front of a homicidal monster makes no sense on any level,” he argued, keeping his hands on the railing next to her. He was afraid if he touched her he’d never let her go.
“I’m saying, we need him to show his grotesque face sooner rather than later so he can be dragged off in handcuffs. He knows that Camille and I defied him. He’d find us here sooner or later.”
“What’s your point?”
“He knows about the divorce and protective order. He knew about the arrest attempt. Sooner rather than later, he’ll track Camille here to a tiny island with a small police force. What he doesn’t know is there’s a Department of Justice investigation happening. That’s a whole lot of law enforcement who could grace our shores in time to nab him the second he lands here.”
“You’re talking about laying a trap here on Mackinac.”
“Can you think of a way to find him faster?”
He wanted to.
“Don’t do this, Remi. This doesn’t feel right.”
“I don’t like it either. But this needs to be over for Camille. How long can she hang in there if he’s just vanished? How long can she hold it together, knowing that he could be anywhere? Across the country or around the next corner?”
Brick looked over his shoulder, the nagging feeling still there. But there was no one there.
“Remi, this is asking for trouble. Let the agents handle it. It’s their job.”
“You heard Dumb and Dumber in there. They’ve been sitting on this for a year and a half. Do you know how many times he’s hit her in eighteen months? How many times he’s hurt and humiliated her? There’s no way they weren’t aware of it. They left her there in that situation because they wanted to follow the money.”
“Using you and Camille as bait is doing the same thing. Intentionally putting you in harm’s way.”
“It’s not,” she insisted, slipping her arms around his waist and holding on. “Because we have you. Brick, you aren’t going to let him get close enough to her. To me. You’ll keep me safe just like you always have.”
