Seaton looked at him with wide eyes. "Wow." She didn't know how to process that information. "The only thing I know about the FBI comes fromSilence of the Lambsand theX-files."
Agent Bravo cracked a smile. "I'm not all that Spooky like Mulder,” he explained, “and thankfully I don't work in Behavioral Sciences. I just get to help save people and bring them back home."
"A true hero," Seaton murmured under her breath and reached out a hand. "Thank you for coming."
The bailiff pushed open the swinging doors separating the public area of the courtroom from the well. He spoke softly to Calleigh, but Seaton didn't need to hear the woman's words to know what she was saying.
As soon as the bailiff stepped back, Seaton looked at Calleigh as her heart rose into her throat. "He's on his way?"
Calleigh nodded. "He just got into the elevator."
"Okay." Seaton said the word because she understood what was happening, but she was also trying to get her heart to understand that she was going to be okay.
Sam reached out and took her hand in his. "Hey," he smiled at her, "everything is going to work out."
She nodded, trying to absorb his positive feelings. "Thanks," she nodded at him and then turned to all of the people who were there to support her. "Thanks to all of you for coming today. It really means so much to me. I've felt so alone for years and now," she blinked back her tears, "I feel like I'm surrounded by the most wonderful group of people in the world."
She saw the Chief's wife give her a nod. "We've got you."
Calleigh gently took her by the arm and led her past the bar that separated the two halves of the courtroom.
As she got to her table and started to sit down, the courtroom door opened and Seaton's heart seized in her chest.
The first person through the door wasn't someone she recognized but she knew the uniform.
He was a Texas Ranger.
The person holding onto his arm was a familiar face. Miss March.
Seaton's heart melted at the sight of her former teacher.
As soon as Miss March saw her, she pointed to the Ranger supporting her and mouthed, 'Look!'
Seaton nodded and turned when she felt Calleigh's hand on her arm.
She turned toward her lawyer and Calleigh gestured back at the door. "The Texas Ranger is Sloane's distant cousin. Ranger McCrae King. He volunteered to bring Missus March. If the judge needs witnesses, she wants to testify along with Lincoln Abe and Zharia Zamora who were there that night. May was one of the people who called the police."
Seaton's stomach twisted. Knowing that Miss March had witnessed the scene that Daryl had created?
She didn't want her past mistakes to affect the people she cared about.
Calleigh sighed softly. "McCrae will make sure that no one bothers her. Don't worry."
She nodded, knowing that what Calleigh said was true. The Texas Ranger looked like he could eat a steer for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with all the protein it must take to maintain his incredible physique.
Daryl would never go head-to-head with a man like McCrae King, especially when he wore a badge and carried a weapon.
He might like to bully her, but she had come to realize that he was a coward at heart.
That's when Daryl walked into the room, followed by an attorney with cold, narrow set eyes.
The two looked like a couple made in hell.
Her own hell.
Lifting his chin, Daryl stared her down and walked along the side wall to the bar.
As he walked toward the center, he took a good look at the people behind her, glaring at the whole ensemble.
