Deadly Intent by Camy Tang

Author:Camy Tang
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Religious, General
ISBN: 9780373443475
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-07-01T12:22:55.123000+00:00

Naomi was being paranoid, but she couldn’t help herself. As she entered her office near the end of the day, she checked to see if anything had been moved.

Everything was as orderly as she’d deliberately left it this morning.

She sat behind her desk, but the sight of her belongings didn’t relieve her. It was as if the fingerprints of the person who had rifled through her office covered everything like an invisible film that she couldn’t wipe away. Her office wasn’t her own anymore.

The message light flashed on her phone. She’d better check her voice mail while she had a spare minute. But before she could, there was a light knock on her door. Devon appeared in the doorway, holding a box. He filled the small space, pushing out the shadow of whoever had invaded her office yesterday, making her feel sheltered and shielded at the same time.

“What are you doing here? It isn’t safe for you,” she said.

He smiled.

Her stomach flipped. Then she wanted to grab her words back—she sounded too concerned for his welfare than she had a right to be.

“You’re here,” he said.

“I work here.”

“Someone here might also be trying to frame you,” he said.

“Someone here might be trying to kill you.”

His smile faltered, then turned rueful. “You got me there.”

She nodded at the box he held. “What’s that?”

“The reason I’m here.” He set it down on her desk. “I went home.”

“All the way back to South San Francisco?”

“Atherton, actually. My office is in South San Francisco.” He was bent over the box, but he looked up at her with laughter in his eye. “I do have to work, you know.”

“Oh.” She’d almost forgotten, after having him around so much the past few days.

“I had to sign some papers, so I wasn’t intending to drive back to Sonoma. But then I remembered this box in my storage shed. I’d been intending to give it back to Jessica.” He laid a dusty high school yearbook on her desk. “I thought this was interesting. Jessica’s family wasn’t always wealthy. She came from a small town in Central Valley…I think it was called Glory.”

Naomi eagerly flipped through the pages, a few sticking together from water damage and age. “There she is.” Jessica’s wide eyes and even wider smile practically dazzled her from the black-and-white page. “She didn’t change much, did she?”

Devon grew still, and Naomi glanced up at him. His face had closed, and his mouth was a grim line.

“What’s wrong?”

He stared down at the photo for a long moment. “Nothing.”

He looked sad and angry at the same time. Naomi traced Jessica’s blond curls with a finger. “Did she change…while she was married to you?” It was a guess, but something in her told her she was close to the mark.

He looked away.

She remained silent, leaving him to this thoughts, but she reached out and touched the back of his hand where it rested against her desk.

He glanced down at where her fingers touched his skin, but he didn’t pull away.

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