“You don’t read minds, do you?” If her friend had some psychic ability, maybe Kendra did too.
“No. You’re an alpha male, a big old grizzly, it goes to figure you would be like that.”
He smiled. “Okay, I’m glad you can’t read minds.”
“Is there something you don’t want me to know about?”
He laughed. “Where to now?”
“I want to question the teen, but it’s not our job. I love being a bounty hunter, but sometimes I would rather be a detective, catching the bad guys and putting them away.”
“Same here, but we do help put them away, too, when we catch them and turn them back in.”
“That’s true.”
Grayson called his sister. “Have you gotten any more calls from Younger?”
“No. I guess you didn’t catch him.”
“No, I’m afraid not, but we got the sixteen-year-old.”
“So he was real.”
“Yeah, and he tried to grab Kendra, and then he tried to kidnap another woman.”
“Oh, how awful. Is Younger still in the area?”
“He was. We learned that the ‘son’ is a stepson and that Billy was driving a car registered to his mother. At least we have him in custody for now. Hopefully, he’ll stick around longer, and we, or law enforcement, can grab him. The stepson was living with his mother in her home.”
“Is Younger still married to the kid’s mother?”
“Yeah, he’s still with her. But they don’t see each other all the time.”
“So no alibis for when he’s going after women.”
“That’s the thing. He uses her as his alibi, and she says he was with her, but in the cases for which he was convicted, they caught his license tag on camera in the vicinity of the crimes. The women he had kidnapped had identified him out of a slew of photos. His cell phone had pinged off cell towers in the same area. Other witnesses had seen his car and him grabbing a couple of different girls, then taking them into his vehicle. There is plenty of evidence that he committed the crime. Mimi couldn’t alibi him out that time.”
Kendra got a call and said, “Yes.” She glanced at Grayson. “Okay, I’ll do it. Yeah, Grayson’s with me. I’ll see if he wants to go with me.”
“I’m going with you.” It didn’t matter to Grayson whether it was anything big or not. Sometimes something that seemed easy to deal with could escalate into something dangerous. But while he was here and they were trying to track down leads on Younger, he would help Kendra with her cases. He said to Ivy, “I’ve got to go.”
“Be careful.”
He said to Kendra, "Since Younger was at the park when his stepson took off down the hiking trail, I suspect he was nearby before we fought and he took off.”
"Because he wanted to get to Billy and free him before the police got there?" Kendra asked.
"Yeah. I'm sure he was afraid Billy might spill his guts about him, and he wanted to get to him first."
"But then?"
Grayson smiled. "He was afraid of the big, bad grizzly." Grayson rubbed his chin. "Younger didn't see you, which is a good thing."
"Right. Younger only saw you. But the teen saw you and me both."
"True." Grayson called Rowland on Bluetooth. "Did you get anything out of the kid?"
"No. His mother is used to her husband getting arrested, and she lawyered up."
