Cowboy with a Cause by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-11T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

It was two o’clock in the morning and Adam and Melanie sat at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and waiting for the residual adrenaline of the night to finally pass.

The officers had left, any evidence that might have been collected had been carried away and Adam had double-checked every window and door in the house to make sure they were all locked up tight.

“I can’t believe I didn’t hear the window open,” she said as she cupped her fingers around her mug. “I’m not even sure what woke me up.”

“I can’t believe you didn’t have the window locked,” Adam chided.

“I guess I got lazy,” she admitted. “But, trust me, I won’t be lazy again. When I think of what might have happened if I hadn’t awakened...” She shook her head and frowned. “This whole place is going to stay locked up like Fort Knox from now on.” Her eyes held a haunting darkness that he knew only time would take away.

She took a sip of her coffee and then set the mug back on the table. “I guess I thought I was safe because I wasn’t a waitress at the Cowboy Café, because I had no ties to the place.”

“Despite the fact that the first two murder victims worked at the café, I don’t think Cameron was ever tied completely to the theory that the deaths were specifically about the people at the café. The evidence shows that Candy Bailey might have invited her killer into the cabin where she was staying, and Shirley Cook’s killer came in through an open window in her living room. Cameron believes the killings were ones of convenience, of victim availability, rather than specifically tied to the café.”

“So I played right into his hands by having my bedroom window unlocked.”

“That’s what I would guess,” he replied.

She frowned and looked out the kitchen window, where the darkness of night was complete. “It’s hard to believe that somewhere out there a man is wandering the streets, checking out homes to find an easy access to a woman he can kill.”

“I think the most difficult thing to fathom is that this man is one of us, somebody we might stand next to in line at the grocery store or someone who might sit at the booth next to us at the café. This isn’t just some crazed stranger who has drifted into town, but rather this man is one of us.”

“Know any crazies in town?” she asked with a forced lightness.

He leaned back in his chair, taking her question seriously. “I know a lot of people I consider slightly odd. I find it odd that old man George Wilton eats at the café every day and yet complains about how bad the food is there. I find it odd that Thomas Manning arrived in town a year ago and the only time he’s seen is when he goes to the café for a meal and reads while he eats.”

Adam frowned, wondering if Cameron had ever looked closely at Thomas, who was a relative newcomer to the area.

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