Free With This Kiss (Windswept Bay Book 3) by Debra Clopton Page B

to be on it. She was after all a control freak and she knew it. When the door closed behind her she heaved a heavy sigh. “And so we wait.”
    “Yes,” Cali said sitting on the chair beside her. “And don’t think I’m not watching you and know what’s running through your head. Don’t even think about going to the bathroom and climbing out the window to go hunt for him.”
    Shar laughed…because that was exactly the thought that had just crossed her mind and she’d been thinking she would do.
     
     
    He shouldn’t stop.
    But he couldn’t pass it up and so Gage found himself pulling into the boat docks just as a police car flew past him heading down the road with his siren blaring.
    The moment Gage heard the siren he’d thought of the Sea Turtle Hospital’s rescue ambulance, the one that usually meant Shar was near. But it had a distinctive siren that he could recognize instantly and so he’d known it wasn’t the turtle ambulance.
    As he parked his car and got out another police car raced down the road past the entrance of the boating dock. He paused to watch it turn down a side road. Something was going on and he wondered if Levi, Shar’s brother and chief of police, would be involved. He hoped not because the wedding was happening within the hour and Shar would want Levi and all of her brothers at the wedding. She’d want him there more, so why was he stopping here?
    He pulled his phone out and looked at the address on the text message he’d just received. He hoped Shar wasn’t having a nervous breakdown or about to come looking for him. He should be there and he would make it on time.
    He just needed to see if his brother was on this boat.
    He expected his phone to ring any minute and he hated that he was running late. But, he’d gotten the email and then the address texted to him from the private investigator only moments ago. He’d been heading to the Windswept Bay Resort where the wedding would be held but the news he’d been waiting for had finally come.
    His brother was indeed living in Windswept Bay.
    They'd been searching for Brandon Jackson. The message said that his name was now BJ McCall. That he’d been adopted by his stepfather around a year after his mother had disappeared with him.
    The message said that he was supposed to be on his boat at this dock.
    Gage was thirty-one and his brother was four years younger than him and had been missing since he was three. Today would be ending a twenty-four year long search.
    What would Brandon think about having a brother?
    Gage looked at his watch again. He had an hour to get to the resort so he could marry the woman of his dreams so he better get this show on the road.
    He stepped onto the dock and headed down the planked runway between the rows and rows of sailboats and deep sea fishing boats. It was a quiet day. Seagulls drifted overhead like lazy kites dipping and soaring and watching for fish in the water. Many of the boat slips were empty, with it being such a gorgeous day it was no wonder. Fishing was a priority of the bay area especially on beautiful days. Or just heading out to enjoy the blue waters of Windswept Bay. He stopped when he reached the Morning Glory, the name of the boat listed in the email and the text.
    It was a nice sized deep sea fishing boat, but from the fact that it was nearly five o’clock in the afternoon and most of the charter boats were out with paying clients and this one was sitting in its slip made him wonder why. The sound of the mutterings coming from the cabin had him pausing before he stepped onto the deck. With little time to spare he boarded the boat.
    He had a wedding to get to.
    Standing Shar up was not an option.
    It would hurt her too deeply “Anyone on board?” he called.
    There was no answer. But Gage had heard the mutterings so he knew someone was inside the cabin. “I just want to ask you a couple of questions,” he called louder. There was no way he was walking away before possibly meeting