Blood Will Tell (6) by Dana Stabenow

Author:Dana Stabenow [Stabenow, Dana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425157985
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Published: 1997-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

"Well, well, well. Edger P. Dischner, as I live and breathe, and Lew Mathisen. And isn't that--"

"Harvey Meganack," Kate said with grim relish. "And Billy Mike. And John King again, who is proving to be downright ubiquitous."

"And Axenia." Jack looked down at her, one corner of his mouth quirking up. "Want to go over and say hi?"

Her smile matched his. "Why not?"

He crooked his arm. She fluttered her eyelashes and slid her hand inside. By the time the two of them reached the little group the grins and Billy's and Harvey's wives had disappeared and the handshakes and back slaps had deteriorated into a furiously whispered argument.

"You'll never get emaa to--" Axenia looked up and saw Kate and Jack bearing down on them. She elbowed Billy, who paled visibly when he saw Kate.

"Billy," she greeted him like her longest, los test friend, "long time no see." "Hello, Kate," he said with a weak smile. "You look great."

"Why, thank you, Billy," she beamed at him, and impartially around the circle.

"Shugak." John King was inclined to be curt, but his eyes widened a bit as he looked her over. The trophy brunette was clamped to his side, her smooth face showing no expression and her eyes as opaque and impenetrable as ever. Again, King didn't bother to introduce her.

Lew Mathisen was positively effusive. "Kate, I've never seen you dressed up before, you look fantastic, you ought to do it more often, ha HAH!"

The brunette blinked once, like a lizard lying in the sun. Kate wondered if there was any there there.

"And this of course is Edgar Dischner. Kate Shugak, Jack Morgan."

"We've met," Jack said, unsmiling. Like most of the Alaska law enforcement community, he'd been around the edges of enough Dischner cases to know the man was dirty, and to be bitterly resentful that he couldn't touch him.

Dischner was smooth and expansive, as he could well afford to be.

"Hello, Jack." His smile was full of calculated charm and no warmth.

"It's been a while."

"Not long enough," Jack drawled.

Lew looked scandalized and plucked at Dischner's elbow. "Edgar, we've got that meeting."

No one ever shortened Edgar P. Dischner's name to plain old Ed, Kate noticed.

Dischner said, still looking at Jack, "Relax, Lew. It's a party. Have a drink. Ask Kate to dance."

"Ha HAH!"

Kate looked at Dischner from beneath her lashes. "Ask me yourself."

That surprised a real laugh out of Dischner, and Jack watched him lead her out with an impassive expression it cost a lot to maintain. He was afraid the bugle beads had gone straight to Kate's brain.

On the floor Dischner was short enough for her to look in the eye, which gave her neck muscles a rest, and her an excellent opportunity to observe his every expression. She smiled at him, after an evening of being pursued from one end of the very large, very crowded room to the other not unaware of the effect of that smile. "Nice party."

He smiled back, the expression not reaching the cold gray eyes. His arm did not tighten around her waist.

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