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    â€œI’m very sure this is no place for a pregnant woman.”
    â€œAll right, I’m going. I’ll check in after a while.”
    In a low voice only Shelby could hear, Sam added, “Please don’t say anything to anyone , even Avery, about what Josh told you.” Sam wanted to say especially Avery, but she showed some restraint. The last thing she needed was Shelby’s FBI agent fiancé catching wind of possible accusations against his boss. Shelby hadn’t put Hamilton plus Hamilton together to get Troy Hamilton, but Avery was apt to.
    â€œI won’t. I promise.”
    â€œUm, should I go too?” Josh asked, eyeing Scotty warily.
    â€œNo, you stay. I’ll be back down as soon as I can.” With her arm still around Scotty’s shoulders, she guided him to the stairs. “Come on, pal. You gotta help me out here.”
    â€œSorry.” He climbed the stairs in slow steps. By the time they reached the top, he’d broken into a sweat.
    Sam wrangled him into his room, helped him out of his coat and sweater. “Do you want to do the jeans?”
    â€œYou can,” he said in the smallest voice she’d ever heard from him.
    That her thirteen-year-old wanted help with his pants said a lot about how sick he really was. A pang of fear struck her heart. Where the hell was Harry?
    She got Scotty out of the jeans and into a pair of flannel pajama pants that had the Batman logo all over them. He was asleep before she finished dressing him.
    Sam pulled the comforter up and over him, tucking him in. She’d no sooner gotten him settled when she heard retching noises from her own room. She ran for the hallway.
    â€œIs he okay?” Darcy asked from her post outside Scotty’s door.
    â€œI don’t know. Doc is on his way.”
    Sam went in to help Nick, who’d fortunately made it to the bathroom. Wetting a washcloth, she bathed his face and cradled his head against her chest between bouts of vomiting.
    â€œScotty has it too.”
    He moaned. “Haven’t felt this bad ever.”
    â€œI’m scared for you guys.”
    He wrapped an arm around her, thinking of her first as he always did, even when he felt like hell. “Don’t be. Just the flu or something.”
    It was the “or something” that scared the crap out of her.
    â€œWhat happened at the hearing?” he asked.
    â€œSuspended for four days, but don’t worry about that now. It’s no biggie.”
    â€œYes, it is. You’re not upset?”
    â€œNah. This too shall pass. I’m not sorry I slugged him. He had it coming.”
    â€œHe certainly did.”
    â€œYou ready to go back to bed?”
    â€œSo ready.”
    It took both of them to get him up off the bathroom floor and back into bed. Sam tucked him in and sat next to him, stroking his hair and thinking about what to do with Josh.
    With Nick asleep again, she crept out of the room and placed a call to Freddie.
    â€œHey, did you talk to Gonzo?” he asked.
    â€œJesus, I totally forgot. You won’t believe what’s been going on since I left HQ earlier.” She brought him up to speed on the situation with Josh Hamilton.
    â€œHoly cow,” he said softly. “Director Hamilton’s son is accusing him of being a kidnapper ?”
    â€œWe don’t know anything yet, other than Josh Hamilton closely resembles the age-progression photo the family released to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the kidnapping, and his thirtieth birthday is coming up. That’s all we know. Lindsey is coming to take a swab, and I’ll ask the lab to rush it. I’m going to reach out to the Williamson County people to let them know we might have a lead for them. Once we have the DNA, we’ll send it to Williamson County to see if it’s a match to the missing baby’s parents.”
    â€œWhat if it is?”
    â€œOne thing at a time.”
    â€œWhat can I