Dark Whispers by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Clint waited at the door while Natalie crossed to the far side of her walk-in closet. She stared at a wicker laundry hamper for a moment before opening it. The little gasp that followed had him moving toward her.

She reached into the hamper and then drew back, her expression somewhere between shock and fear. “It’s gone.”

“What’s gone?” He peered into the empty hamper.

“The gun.” She met his gaze. “Yesterday Suzanna told me she’d found a gun and bloody clothes in my room and that she couldn’t protect me anymore. I had no idea what she meant, and then last night I found a white garbage bag in the hamper.” She closed her eyes and shook her head.

“You’re thinking the clothes and gun were from when you shot the intruder.”

“Except the gun disappeared along with the intruder.” She stared into the empty hamper again. “How could I not remember changing clothes and hiding the gun before calling the police? My brain tells me that I ran out of the house and called 9-1-1.”

The doorbell rang, echoing through the house. Natalie looked stricken.

“Is there anything else you haven’t told me? Anything at all?” Clint might be a sucker but he believed her. She needed to be straight with him. Any secrets she held back could create serious problems going forward. With a man dead, this was no time to hold back.

“I think my sister was having an affair.” Natalie let go a shaky breath. “My brain keeps replaying these voices and this soft laugher. One of the voices belongs to April, the other to a man. The voices wake me up and I follow the sounds to April’s bedroom—the one she slept in growing up and uses whenever she stays the night. For the past several weeks it’s happened every night. No one’s there, of course, but it has to mean something. Once the voices wake me up, I go to the stairs and I remember snippets of my fall.”

Clint braced his hands on his hips and contemplated the possibilities. “Why do you think that means she’s having an affair? Maybe her husband was here with her.”

Natalie hugged her arms around herself. “I’ve tried to convince myself the male voice was her husband’s, but in my heart I know that’s not true. David and I were never really friends. He certainly wouldn’t have spent the night here. Frankly, at the time, April wouldn’t have either unless she and David had quarreled.”

Clint nodded. “All right.”

The doorbell sounded again. She flinched.

“For now we keep this between us.” No need to put her through the kind of interrogation associated with being a suspect in a homicide until they sorted out what the hell was going on around here.

“It’s bad enough that I’ve impeded the investigation into the intruder I’m certain I shot,” she protested. “I can’t have you breaking the law for me by doing the same in a homicide investigation. This has gone too far already, Clint.”

“Let me worry about the homicide investigation.

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