Entombed: A Novel by Linda Fairstein

Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Thrillers, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9780743266819
Google: O1JpA8IjyIIC
Amazon: 0743482271
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2005-01-03T23:00:00+00:00

24

I knew the triage process would begin the moment we hit the entrance to the ambulance bay at Presbyterian. A medical team would be waiting for us, Tormey would be evaluated for surgery, and if they put him under with anesthesia, we'd be lucky if we could get back at him within the next forty-eight hours.

"There's no time for bullshit now, Professor. I need more honest answers or I can't protect you from whatever's going on."

"But I thought Emily's attack was a random one-a man who followed her in off the street."

"Maybe it is that. I happen not to think so. Too many things are going on that seem to be related. The child you fathered with Emily, have you ever tried to have any contact with her?"

Tormey looked directly at me. "The baby died, Miss Cooper. She was stillborn."

"That's what Emily told you?"

"Yes. And that's what her mother told me, in the one or two conversations we had together. I felt responsible for the fact that her family disowned Emily. Then how ironic it was that she lost the baby after all."

The truth about the child and the fact that she had been raised by Emily's sister could wait a day or two.

"But your relationship with Emily, that continued?"

"Sexually? No, not after she came back to New York and started at the college. She had visions of setting up house together, of me replacing the family she thought she had lost. Getting her pregnant had been a pretty sobering experience for both of us- well, that's a particularly bad expression for me to use. I was a few years older than she, and by the time that year had passed, I was involved with someone else. Someone more appropriate. The woman I married, actually."

The medic signaled me to get out of his way as we turned onto 168th Street.

"We're almost there, Professor. Those names Detective Chapman was asking you about? You know he didn't finish."

Tormey sighed.

"Did you ever meet Monty?"

"Who?" he asked. He seemed weary from the pain and apprehension.

"A guy Emily lived with before she was arrested. Someone who may have done something that frightened her."

"It doesn't sound familiar."

"This ceremony about Edgar Allan Poe today, what's your interest in him?"

Tormey smiled and closed his eyes. "I told you earlier, I think the man was a genius."

"And Emily, did she agree?"

"I don't know what she thought, Miss Cooper. She worked on projects for me. She did what I asked her to do."

The ambulance lurched as the driver stopped short and backed it into a bay. The men who were standing by to receive Noah Tormey lifted the gurney out of the rear and placed it on a set of metal wheels, rushing it into the doors that opened automatically as they approached.

"Hey, loo, you got nothing better to do than make house calls?" Mike asked. Raymond Peterson, the lieutenant of the homicide squad, was standing with a nurse at the ER entrance. He held out a hand and helped me step down.

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