Double Jeopardy (An FBI Thriller Boxed set Book 2) by Coulter Catherine

Author:Coulter, Catherine [Coulter, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101659632
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2008-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-THREE

By the time everyone had all the answers he or she wanted, Ramsey was feeling human enough to walk down to see Emma. She and Virginia Trolley were sitting in a corner of the cafeteria, their heads close together.

Emma looked up and saw him. She let out a yelp and dashed to him, wrapping herself around his leg. “It’s all right, Emma,” he said, patting her head. “See? I’m walking. It’s for real. Nobody’s holding me up. It was only another little bullet to a big macho guy like me. Now, let me pick you up so you can give me a proper hug.”

“No, let me do it,” Savich said and hoisted Emma up to eye level with Ramsey. She reached out and hugged him. He kissed her ear. “You smell good, Em. What is that? Oscar de la Renta?”

“No, that’s the soap from the hotel.” Emma drew back and said, “Was that a joke, Ramsey?”

Molly said to Sherlock, who was looking fit and quite beautiful and watching her husband with new eyes, “Ramsey loves her so much. Maybe someday he’ll even love me.”

“The man’s found Nirvana and he knows it, Molly,” Sherlock said in a matter-of-fact voice, still looking at her husband holding Emma, a besotted look on his face. “I’ve always liked Ramsey. Now that he’s got you, everything will be just fine. What do you think, Molly? Does Dillon look like a natural holding Emma or what?”

* * *

THE orderly had brought two cots into Ramsey’s room the night before. The whole family was together. They were sound asleep when the door suddenly burst open and Lieutenant McPherson ran in.

Ramsey was out of bed in an instant, ready to fight, and he nearly passed out cold. He fell back against the bed, breathing hard. “What’s wrong?”

McPherson said, panting, “I was worried that something could have happened to you as well. Here, let me help you back into bed.”

“What are you talking about?” Molly said, helping Ramsey herself. Emma was halfway to Ramsey’s bed, intent, he knew, on protecting him.

“It’s Dickerson,” McPherson said. “They think somebody put something, maybe potassium, into one of his IVs. He’s dead.”

* * *

“BUT there are staff all over the place in the ICU,” Virginia Trolley said, still looking utterly incredulous even though McPherson had been talking about it for a good ten minutes. She’d thrown on clothes and rushed to his hospital room when Ramsey had called her. Ramsey had never seen her without makeup before and her hair uncombed and her red blazer wrinkled. She looked cute. He’d never tell her that, of course, because she’d knock him out.

“How could anybody get in there,” she continued, “stick a needle into the IV tube, and get out again, all without being seen by anybody? There weren’t any guards on him, why would there be? He wasn’t going anywhere on his own and no one ever thought he’d need protection. We’ve spoken to security and they’ve sealed off the hospital, but good luck on that.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.