Eve Duncan - 10 - Eight Days to Live by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Cults, Eve (Fictitious character), Paintings, Duncan, Fiction, Human sacrifice, Suspense, Artists, Thrillers, Painting
ISBN: 9780312368159
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-04-20T05:00:00+00:00

“Studgard,” Lina said. “Two exits down. There are three hotels in the town.” It was the first time she had spoken in the last twenty minutes. “The Merrier is a lower-income motel and would probably be less public.”

“Thank you,” Jock said. “The Merrier. You haven’t steered us wrong yet.”

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“I don’t want to help you. I have to do it,” Lina said coldly. “You’re the lesser of two evils right now. And if I decide that I’d do better without you, then I’ll walk away. I’m just a little confused right now, and I need time to clear my thinking.”

Of course, she’s confused, Jane thought sympathetically. She watched the life she had so painstakingly built from disaster destroyed in the space of less than an hour. “I tried to bring some of your personal things when we left the cottage, but I didn’t know what you’d want. I cleaned out your desk drawers and grabbed some clothes. I looked for your photo albums, but I couldn’t find them.”

Lina frowned. “Photo albums?”

“It’s what I’d want to take with me if I was ever forced to leave a place. Memories.”

“I have no photo albums.” Lina looked out the window at the stream of passing cars. “I prefer to live in the present.”

Jane felt again that surge of pity. She had not lived an easy life, but she had good memories of good people. Lina had been brutalized and cut off from family and country. Jane could not imagine being stripped of her memories of Eve and Joe. “But the present is tomorrow’s memory. I guess we just have to make it as good as possible.”

“I did make it good,” Lina said. “And it just blew up in my face.”

“I’m sorry that we were involved. I can’t blame you for resenting us.”

Lina’s gaze shifted back to her. “I don’t know how I feel right now. I have to think about it. I know I resent you interfering with my free will. I do blame you for that.” She glanced at Caleb.

“Or rather, I blame him.”

“No, blame me,” Jane said. “I’m not sure if I would have been desperate enough to give you a karate chop, but I suspect it might have come to that. I couldn’t have left you there. And when it all comes down to basics, I’m the one who this is all about. Jock and Caleb are only helping me, trying to keep me alive.”

“What a splendid whitewash,” Caleb said. “I feel like a knight in shining armor.”

Lina ignored him. “You don’t defend yourself?” She studied Jane’s face. “Curious. Everyone is sure that what they do is right even when it isn’t.”

“Not in my world,” Jane said. “You try to do what’s right and hope. Life is too complex to be certain of anything.”

“This Millet is certain that you should be killed.”

“But he doesn’t belong to my world. He’s a monster who hovers in the shadows.”

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Lina closed her eyes for an instant.

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