Beverly Barton - Worth Dying For.htm by Elisa Jingco

Author:Elisa Jingco
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-17T20:56:24+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

AS HE SETTLED into the booth in a quiet corner of the restaurant where he was meeting with fellow Dundee agents, Dante couldn't get Leslie Anne off his mind. He had intended to tell her that another agent would take his place as the liaison between her family and the agency, that he'd be working in the field for the rest of this assignment. But he'd changed his mind at the last minute, deciding it was best to leave that unpleasant job up to Tessa.

She was the child's mother, wasn't she? She was better equipped to deal with her daughter than he was. Besides, the less Dante was around Leslie Anne Westbrook, the better.

But what if Leslie Anne isn’t Tessa's daughter?

That one thought tormented him in a way nothing had since he'd had to face the fact that Amy was dead, that she'd never come back to him. Now here was this teenage girl who looked so much like Amy. Could it be nothing more than a strange coincidence? Seeing the resemblance between the two totally out of proportion? Maybe the teenager didn't look as much like Amy as he thought she did.

He needed an unbiased opinion. That's why he'd asked Lucie to meet him a little earlier than the other agents.

She was that rare breed of woman who could, despite being an emotional creature, act and react in a rational manner when the occasion called for logic.

Dante watched Lucie as the hostess pointed her in the right direction. He waved at her, then eased out of the booth and stood while she walked toward him.

"Thanks for meeting me," he said.

"Sure thing. What's up? You sounded sort of odd when you called and asked if I could get here a little earlier than we'd planned."

After Lucie slid into the booth, Dante slipped in on the opposite side and faced her. "I need to ask you to do something for me and I need you to keep it strictly between the two of us."

"All right." Apparently curious, she studied him for a moment. "I take it this is something personal and has not-F:/…/Beverly Barton - Worth Dying For.…

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hing to do with the Westbrook case."

"Right and wrong."

She stared at him questioningly. "Right that it's personal?"

"Yes."

"And wrong about-"

"In a roundabout way, it does have something to do with the Westbrooks. With Leslie Anne in particular."

"Hmm. You've got me dying of curiosity."

Dante removed his wallet from the inside pocket of his jacket, flipped it open and stuck his finger into a slot beneath his driver's license. "I want you take a look at this picture and tell me if she resembles anyone you know."

Carefully, Dante eased the senior high photograph of Amy from his wallet. He'd been carrying this picture around for seventeen years. He tried not to glance at it as he slid it across die table to Lucie, but he couldn't stop himself. God, how it still hurt. Sometimes the pain was as fresh and raw as it had been in those first few weeks and months after Amy had disappeared.

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