A Deeper Fear by Brennan Allison

Author:Brennan, Allison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2021-01-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Pride staff—a small, close group of people—were visibly upset about what had happened to Ellen, and were putting together shifts of people to go sit with Marc at the hospital. They didn’t know who might want to hurt her, she had no enemies, there had been no threats, and they didn’t have any pending lawsuits over their equipment. Two previous lawsuits had been settled years ago.

By the time John took Lucy back to the convention center, they had learned nothing more that could help.

“It goes back to that drone footage,” John said. “Other than that person on the roof of the Sheraton, I didn’t see anything suspicious.”

“Maybe,” Lucy said, “the killer thought the drone had caught them doing something. Or one of those cars the drone tagged is suspicious.”

“I sent the plates to my boss, I’ll have a report shortly.” He glanced at his watch. “Do you want to join me talking to the folks at the Sheraton? I want to inspect the roof. The AG will be at the Hyatt later this afternoon, and there’s no line of sight from the Sheraton to any of the rooms—except maybe the top floors—but even then, it would be next to impossible to plan an assassination.”

“Assassination?” Lucy was surprised that that was where his mind had gone.

“The AG’s security chief has been wanting a threat assessment on the AG and other dignitaries here for the conference—the DA, police chief, people like that. I don’t want to downplay a threat, but I don’t see it right now. And a room full of armed cops—it would be suicide. Bomb dogs already walked through the conference yesterday. They’re going back today and doing a wider canvass, including both hotels as well as the convention center.”

“Maybe there’s something on the roof that will help us make sense of all this.”

He glanced over at her as they walked through the main doors of the Sheraton. “I appreciate you helping me with this. You didn’t have to spend your time off doing this.”

“Ellen is a friend of Jack and Megan, I want to do whatever I can to help.” Not to mention the vacation she thought she’d have with Sean had ended before it even began.

She didn’t want to think about Sean now—she couldn’t, not after last night. And he was so . . . formal at Pride. He knew Ellen, and that had to bother him, watching what happened to her. But he didn’t reach out for Lucy, for support or anything . . . and she hadn’t reached for him. She should have. She should have known that this was getting to him, in addition to all the other weight he was carrying. But she’d been hurt, and she let her anger and frustration take over when she saw him. Self-defense, maybe, but it shouldn’t be like that, not with her husband.

She didn’t know how she should have responded, and then wondered if that was part of her problem. Shouldn’t she instinctively know how to

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