Daddy's Gone a Hunting by Clark Mary Higgins

Author:Clark, Mary Higgins [Clark, Mary Higgins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Adult, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781451668940
Amazon: 1451668945
Goodreads: 15803560
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

51

Justin Kramer spent a good part of both Monday and Tuesday thinking about Hannah Connelly.

He had been touched by Kate Connelly’s obvious concern for him when at the closing she had realized that he had been forced to sell the condo because he had lost his job. He had tried even then to assure her that it wasn’t that big a deal. Yes, he had enjoyed living there. No, he didn’t want to live beyond his means. Two thousand monthly maintenance on top of a mortgage payment wasn’t in his budget when he was unemployed.

Giving Kate a bromeliad plant had actually been an afterthought. He had happened to be in the apartment when the real estate agent was showing it to Kate, the prospective buyer. She had admired it and clearly was knowledgeable about plants, and that’s how his housewarming gift came about. He liked Kate.

But when he had gone up to the apartment on Sunday afternoon and met Hannah Connelly, something had happened. Her midnight-blue eyes, framed by long lashes, were enhanced by her ivory complexion and cap of shining dark brown hair. She was wearing running shoes and barely came up to his chest. At five feet ten, Justin had always longed for at least two more inches.

Justin remembered how, when he complained about his height, his father had suggested wryly, “Then stand up straight. There’s nothing like a military carriage to make you look taller.”

He and Hannah had stood together for a moment before they had gone into the kitchen and he had collected the plant. Then, on the way down in the elevator, Justin had been trying to decide if it would be too much to ask Hannah if she’d had lunch yet.

But he had asked her, and she hadn’t had lunch yet, and she did go out with him. And it had been fun. After lunch, Hannah had gone back to the hospital to check on Kate. All day Monday, Justin debated calling her, but decided that he wouldn’t want her to feel crowded. He told himself that watering a plant was not necessarily an open channel to developing the friendship that he very much wanted to develop.

On Tuesday, he had a late-afternoon meeting with a prospective client, a man in his late thirties who had inherited some money and was anxious to invest it properly. After it was over, Justin had elected to walk home from his new office. That decision meant that he would pass by Kate Connelly’s apartment.

As he did, he glanced sideways at the door, half hoping that Hannah might have stopped there again. Instead, he recognized the man who was coming out. He had seen enough pictures of Douglas Connelly in the newspapers in the last few days to be sure that he was right. Justin stopped. “Mr. Connelly,” he said.

Surprised, Douglas Connelly stopped and took Justin’s measure, noting his clean-cut appearance, including the fact that he was well dressed in business attire. Connelly forced a smile.

“Mr. Connelly, I know your daughters.

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