Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

Author:Mary Burton [Burton, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9781405918909
Google: 4JP3AwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1420132113
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2014-10-27T13:00:00+00:00

December 29

Sugar,

Don’t you worry, now you hear me? No one saw us. We are safe. We weren’t spotted the other night. Close. But we are in the clear. Come on around this evening after work. The girls will be gone and we can snuggle in my bed without anyone watching us.

A.

Chapter Ten

Sunday, October 16, 5 PM

Restless energy churned in Rachel hours after Deke had left. She worked on her sculpture but found the work frustrating and futile. She paced. Attempted to write a brief but the more she corralled her thoughts, the tighter and tighter her skin grew. As much as she wanted to go for a run and sweat away her grief her injury wouldn’t allow it. She was trapped in these four walls with her thoughts.

Last night when her attacker had struck her shoulder, the pain had been blinding. It had robbed her of breath and thought. And that had been a glancing blow. Not the full-on blows that Lexis had endured.

She closed her eyes, trying to shut out the image of her friend dying so brutally. Rachel finally gave up any stab at work or art. She changed into jeans and a long-sleeved button-down shirt that she eased into slowly. Bending her arm was painful but she managed it and fumbled with her buttons until they were fastened. She slipped her feet into loafers, grabbed her purse, and she left the office.

The walk to her parking spot was a half block but her nerves snapped as she passed parked cars able to mask an attacker. Her heart raced as she neared a familiar alley, glanced down and searched for a hooded attacker. Seeing no one, she hurried to her car. A click of the button, the doors unlocked and she slid behind the wheel, breathless. For a moment she let the warmth of the seat seep into her bruised shoulder. Getting around wasn’t as easy as she’d imagined.

She started the car and pulled onto the side street. Less than thirty minutes later, she arrived at the rustic address that Lexis had loved so much. She stopped one hundred yards from the cabin studying the crime-scene tape and the police car positioned by the forensics van.

She studied the cop car, knowing he’d be the gatekeeper she’d have to get past if she wanted a look at the crime scene. When she realized he wasn’t in the patrol car, she grabbed her purse and hurried the last one hundred yards. Her shoulder throbbed and begged her to stop but she kept moving, hesitating at the yellow crime-scene tape. Everyone entering the crime scene changed it in some way, whether they picked up critical fibers, tracked foreign dirt or smudged a fingerprint.

Rachel wanted to go into the house and stand where her friend had lived. She wanted to tell Lexis that she was sorry. How had all this spiraled so badly out of control?

As much as she wanted to do all this, she didn’t cross the line. Her grief did not trump the cops’ job of catching this killer.

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