Anywhere She Runs by Webb Debra

Author:Webb, Debra [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2010-04-27T05:00:00+00:00

Adeline squared her shoulders and reentered the conference room. She moved to the seat she’d vacated but didn’t sit down. Instead, she surveyed the law enforcement personnel around the table. Wyatt waltzed in and Sullenger’s face beamed. Adeline resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

“Here’s the deal,” Adeline began. “I don’t swim. I don’t do water sports of any kind. No boats. No nothing. I have nightmares about drowning.” She fixed her attention on Ferguson. “Cherry Prescott had recently started having nightmares about drowning her daughter.” Before the man could rationalize or dismiss that fact, Adeline pushed on. “She was so terrified of what she might do to her daughter that she refused to bathe her. I don’t know what this means.” Adeline turned her palms up. “I don’t believe in psychic connections or any of that shit. But this is real.” Her gaze bored into Ferguson’s. “Trust me, the fear Cherry felt—if it was anything like mine—is damned real.”

Adeline shifted her gaze to Cummings. “Call the husband. Call her friends. Whoever you have to. Find out if Penny was afraid of the water. In the past or now. Whether we understand how it relates to this case or not, we need to know.”

Silence thickened in the air for three seconds.

Womack shuffled his papers, cleared his throat. “We’ve had a few crank calls related to the disappearances.”

Adeline’s attention flew to him. “Explain.”

“As you all know, we’ve taken hundreds of calls,” Womack went on. “In the beginning some were useful. A couple of locals who saw Prescott in town the day she went missing. But, for the most part, they’ve been a waste of time. A blond woman might have been spotted but it wasn’t Prescott. It happens anytime you have a high profile case like this.”

Making a rolling motion with her hand, Adeline urged him to get to the point. Since he’d brought the subject up, he must have a point.

“But late yesterday I got a weird one.”

“Weird how?” Wyatt asked.

Adeline kept her gaze away from him. Each time she looked him in the eyes she understood one very important fact. She was a liar. This morning had changed . . . everything. He’d gotten all the way inside her . . . physically, mentally. She had to focus on this case. If there was any chance Prescott and Arnold were still alive, Adeline had to do all within her power to find them. And to stop this psycho bastard.

“Well,” Womack said, “we’ve had a few. Aliens took her. That sort of thing. But this one was different.” The older detective’s gaze settled on Adeline’s. “This one claimed to be one of those psychics you don’t believe in.”

Anticipation and fear pounded from Adeline’s every pore. He wouldn’t have brought this up if there wasn’t something bigger coming . . . something relevant. “What’d she have to say?” The tiny hairs on her body lifted as if on some level she sensed this was immensely important.

“The caller claimed the women were

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