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didn’t play the client-confidentiality card, especially now that her client was dead.
    “There’s more,” Nate said a moment later. “Doug said April hadn’t mentioned Willy in months, that she’d been seeing some rich guy, and that April was worried that the guy might be up to no good.”
    “You got a name?” Sawyer asked.
    “Yeah. It’s a name you’re not going to like. Doug said it was Bennie O’Neal.”
    Cassidy wasn’t able to bite back her gasp. No . This couldn’t be happening. But Sawyer only tossed her an I-told-you-so look.
    “The detective said if you want to find April’s killer,” Nate added, “then start with Bennie—that judging from the way April talked bad about him, he’s the one who probably murdered her.”

Chapter Five
    Sawyer finished up the call with his brother, Josh, and gave him both an apology for having to leave the reception early and well-wishes since Josh was about to leave on his honeymoon with his new bride. Even though Josh had asked about the kidnapping, Sawyer kept the details brief. No need to trouble his brother with a case that didn’t make sense anyway.
    When he ended the call, he glanced up to check on Cassidy. Sawyer had no idea what to do about her. Obviously waiting, she was pacing the hall of the Silver Creek sheriff’s office. The trouble was, it might be a long time before they heard anything from the kidnappers.
    If there were indeed kidnappers.
    It was possible this was all some kind of elaborate scheme concocted by Bennie to get his sister’s money under the guise of a ransom. That part of the twisted plan actually made sense, but not much else did.
    Like why had April been murdered?
    And why had the kidnappers demanded a photo of Sawyer holding a stranger’s baby? A baby who may or may not belong to April.
    One thing was certain—the little girl wasn’t Laurie’s and his. Sawyer wanted to be relieved about that, but there was a flip side to this coin. At least if he was her father, he could have decided her fate. He could have made sure she was in a good place where she’d be safe—with him. As it was now, the baby would become a ward of the state, and that was, sadly, a best-case scenario.
    There was a birth father out there. And judging from April’s rap sheet, that father might be scum.
    Either her ex-boyfriend Willy Malloy.
    Or Bennie.
    Sawyer didn’t want either man to have a claim on the newborn and didn’t want the baby to be placed in their care. Of course, he might not have to worry about that if it turned out that April wasn’t the baby’s mother. And if she wasn’t, he really needed to remember the name of the woman he’d met at the bar.
    Because if that woman was the mother, then it meant the baby could possibly be his after all since they’d had a one-night stand.
    Yeah, this was a tangled mess, all right.
    Cassidy paced by the office door again, and Sawyer saw her check the clock on the wall next to the sheriff’s desk. It was going on 6:00 p.m.
    “The kidnappers should have called by now,” she grumbled. “Maybe I should check and make sure the calls to my house are routed here.”
    “If a call comes in there, you’ll get it here,” he assured her.
    He’d made the arrangements for that himself. Ditto for getting her a replacement cell phone with the same number, and he’d had it delivered to the office so the kidnappers could contact her. She had a death grip on the phone now, and other than some emails having to do with her family business, there had been no communication from anyone.
    Especially not from Bennie.
    She huffed, pushed her hair from her face. “Maybe I should just go home and wait for the call.”
    He gave her a flat look to let her know that wasn’t going to happen. Not without him anyway. “Should I remind you one more time that you were kidnapped, too? Those thugs might try to take you again, and the safest place you can be is here with me.”
    Sawyer hoped that was true anyway.
    He didn’t