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us,” Bree concluded. She swallowed hard and looked at him.
    Kade looked at her too out of the corner of his eye. She had certainly been through an ordeal. Her dark brown hair had been choppily cut and was mussed well beyond the point of making a fashion statement. And then there was the dress. It hung on her like a sack. There were dark circles under her drug-dazed eyes. Her lips were chapped raw. Still, she managed to look darn attractive.
    And yeah, he was stupid enough to notice.
    It was also easy to notice that Bree had passed on those cat-green eyes to their daughter.
    She opened her mouth, and for a moment Kade thought she might ask about Leah. But she didn’t. She snatched his phone from his hand.
    “I’m calling my supervisor,” Bree insisted.
    Kade didn’t stop her, though he knew Randy Cooper didn’t have the answers that Bree wanted. That’s because Kade had spent a lot of time with the agent over the past month and a half.
    She must have remembered the number because she pressed it in without hesitation and put the call on speaker. “Coop,” she said when the man answered.
    “Bree,” he said just as quickly. “Are you all right?”
    “No.” With that single word, her breath broke, and tears sprang to her eyes. She tried to blink them back, but more just came.
    “The last lead paid off,” Kade informed Coop. “She was at the Treetop Motel here in San Antonio, but so was a gunman. The informant could have set us up to be killed.”
    Coop cursed. “Either of you hurt?”
    “I’m fine,” Kade assured him. “Not so sure about Bree—”
    “Where have I been all these months?” she interrupted.
    “I don’t know,” Coop answered. He gave a weary sigh. “But trust me, we’ll find out.”
    Yeah. They would. Step one was done. Kade had located Bree, and now that he had her, he could start unraveling this crazy puzzle that had resulted in the birth of their daughter.
    “I need to see you ASAP,” Coop told her. “How soon can you get her here, Kade?”
    “Not soon,” Kade let him know. “Someone drugged her, and even though it looks as if it’s wearing off, she needs to see a doctor.”
    “I can arrange that,” Coop insisted.
    Of course Coop could, but if Kade took Bree to FBI headquarters, she’d be sucked into the system. Exams, interviews, paperwork. That had to wait because the FBI wouldn’t put Leah first.
    Kade would.
    He had to find out if the gunman meant Leah was now in danger, too. Kade had a hard time just stomaching that thought, but it wouldn’t do him any good to bury his head in the sand.
    “Is it true, Coop?” Bree asked. “Did I really have a baby?”
    Coop took some time answering. “Yes,” was all he said.
    Bree groaned, squeezed her eyes shut and the phone dropped into her lap. She buried her face in her hands. She wasn’t hyperventilating yet, but she was about to fall apart.
    “Coop, we’ll call you back. In the meantime, my brother Lt. Nate Ryland is on his way to the hotel crime scene and is trying to track down this gunman. We need to find this guy,” Kade emphasized, though Coop already knew that.
    Because the gunman could be the key to unraveling this. Well, unless he was just a hired gun. But even then, that was a start since they could find out who’d paid him to kill them.
    Coop began to argue with Kade’s refusal of his order to bring Bree in, but Kade took the phone from her lap and ended the call. He also made another turn so he could check to make sure they weren’t being followed. Things looked good in that department but not with Bree. She kept her hands over her face. Clamped her teeth over her bottom lip. And then she made that sound. Half groan, half sob.
    Hell. That did it.
    Kade hooked his arm around her and dragged her across the seat toward him. Much to his surprise, she didn’t fight him. She dropped her head on his shoulder.
    For a moment, anyway.
    Just a moment.
    Her head whipped up, and she met his gaze. She blinked. Shook