Dr. O by Robert W. Walker

Author:Robert W. Walker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-04-21T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

The following morning they were out before dawn, continuing on the Interstate only briefly before Robyn decided to veer off for the old Pacific Coast Highway. She'd always wanted to see it, and besides, Thorpe would be looking for them everywhere, making the Interstate dangerous for them. She still wasn't certain that she wanted to be found, not just yet, anyway.

Ovierto's communication had told her one thing, that the evil genius had escaped capture once again. Had he been calling from his hideaway, or a car, or his plane? He obviously had a fortune to squander in his quest for Pythagoras. To some degree, she felt com-forted knowing there was a reason, after all, for the man's madness, his obsession, that it was not just a deranged fixation on driving Donna Thorpe as mad as he was.

She switched on the radio in order to learn what she could from the calls. Every law enforcement agency in the West was alerted to the car, down to the license plates, and so too, then, was Dr. Ovierto.

"We have to ditch this car, get something else," Robyn told her charges.

"Why are we hiding from Thorpe?"

"Thorpe is not your... Thorpe draws Ovierto."

She had almost said that Thorpe had used them all to bait Ovierto in Seattle.

"If we could get to an airport, fly out," suggested Hogarth.

"All the airports will have men looking for us, two women traveling with a child, but if we did it separately... maybe. Where would you like to go?"

"Vermont."

"What's in Vermont? Relatives? Relatives are not good. Ovierto, Thorpe... both will know about any relatives."

"Friends I haven't seen in years."

"You don't mind endangering—"

"Well, what else can I do?"

"We can go back to Seattle, make a deal with Thorpe."

"What kind of deal?"

"We've got to get Ovierto off your trail. We've got to set up a decoy operation. I'm a decoy cop. With the right makeup, I could look like you. We can leave a crumb-trail to me for Ovierto to follow while you and Mindy can be properly relocated. No more playing tag with this monster."

"What makes you think Donna Thorpe will be willing to do it your way?"

"It's the only way she's going to find you."

She pulled over beside the road to take in the view of the Pacific. She'd never seen it up close like this before, so much peaceful water at the surface, teeming with unrest and frenzied feeding below. She had stepped from the car, taking the keys with her, to view the panoramic sight before her. The child got out to stretch, followed by Elena Hogarth with a resigned look on her face.

"All right, but Thorpe will want the papers, too. You know that."

"Yes, I know. I also know that they're not safe on me or you. At least she can place several concrete walls between that information and Ovierto."

"And you... it places you in great danger to impersonate me."

"That's my job... besides, just standing here be-side you places me in as much danger. I think for your sake.

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