Beckett (Robinson Destruction #4) - Kathi S. Barton Page 0,61

on that sucker that you need to disarm.

After getting the car clean, Tru was on her way home. The only way they’d be able to find her now was if they knew that she had rented a car and under whose name. The funny thing was, no one had rented this car, and no one had paid for it. Rogen had taken it off their books and inventory. No one would know that the thing was missing, as it was never there. She loved her job.

Chapter 10

Jonas waited at the door for his brother to come and see the kids. He didn’t know when they’d gotten sick, but two of them had been throwing up since he arrived. The other two, including the baby, were sleeping whatever it was off. The sitter was missing too.

“Thank goodness.” Dawson asked him where the kids were. “There are two in the bedroom sleeping. They don’t have a temperature, but they’re sticky with sweat.”

He examined the two that he’d put in the living room with buckets. After they answered questions put to them, Jonas went to the other two children. Bobby was awake, but he didn’t feel good, he told him. Picking up the baby, Jonas changed her out of her wet sleeper and was worried that her urine was so dark. Dawson came in to check on them when he sat in the rocker to rock Sarah.

“Food poisoning is my first guess.” He said that’s what he thought as well. “Isn’t there an adult here with them?”

“I’m having someone find her.” Dawson checked Sarah, who was crying but not sweating anymore. “They were alone when I arrived. Thomas told me that Cindy left them two days ago and hadn’t returned. She’d better have a fucking good excuse for leaving them like this.”

“They need to be with someone all the time right now, Jonas. Do you have anyone else that can look after them for you?” He said he was doing it for now. “Four sick kids are going to be hard on you. I don’t know if you know this or not, but if this is food poisoning, it will be a couple of days before any of them will be well enough to take any fluids in. I’m concerned for their wellbeing. Not that I don’t think you could do it, but you do need some help.”

“I have to keep them safe, Dawson. I made a promise to them.” Dawson told him that he could take them back with him to the family, and they’d make sure they were safe and getting better. “I’ve been thinking about that. But logistically, I haven’t any way of doing that with four of them.”

“I’m calling Mom. That is if you don’t mind. You know as well as I do that she’ll have them home with soup in their bellies before either one of us can figure out even getting a car seat for them in a car.” Dawson was right. Jonas knew it. But he didn’t want his family to know about this or some of the other things he was into. “What do you want to do?”

“Call her for me, please.” Jonas had been there since midnight when Thomas had called him. Bobby was throwing up, and he could hear the baby screaming her head off. He was in the car and going to them even before Thomas hung up the phone.

Mom wanted to talk to him, so he handed Sarah off to his brother as he took the phone. He just didn’t want her to be yelling at him at the moment and started out saying that to her.

“Why would you assume I was going to be upset with you?” He said that he was sorry and exhausted. “I’m sure you are. Dawson said they were ill and that he was going to run some blood work on them. We’re coming there to help you now. I’d rather bring them here if you’d not mind.”

“No, I think that would be the best place for them.” He moved out of the bedroom into the kitchen, where the kids couldn’t hear him. “Mom, they’ve been badly abused. Thomas won’t allow anyone to touch him but me. Not even his brother and sisters. Sarah is terrified of the dark and needs to have a light on all the time. Hailey won’t eat anything unless she sees you take it out of the package and watches it being prepared. Bobby is…he’s broken, Mom. I mean that