Explosive Alliance by Susan Sleeman

Author:Susan Sleeman [Sleeman, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9781460381564
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

Krista watched Cash pace the floor. Back and forth. Back and forth. Part of her couldn’t believe after the time they’d spent together and the relationship that seemed to be developing between them—despite their best efforts to avoid it—that he could possibly think she was involved in the bombing.

The other part of her, the one who’d lived in a state of unease for years, had expected this kind of reaction all along. Her life had come full circle. The police believed her guilty of another crime she hadn’t committed. But the hurt was exponentially bigger coming from Cash. She had to get him to see she didn’t know about the detonator.

She clutched his arm, forcing him to stop and look at her. “I had nothing to do with this. Please believe me.”

“The evidence speaks for itself.” He held up the detonator. “This is very similar to the one used in the stadium bomb.”

“Similar but not an exact match?”

“Not exact, but come on, Krista. It’s a detonator for a bomb. Not a run of the mill item found in someone’s sofa.”

She let her gaze travel the room, looking for something, anything to explain her situation. “You said yourself that you think the bomber is the one who broke in here and is targeting me. Maybe he planted that thing under the sofa to discredit me. You know, so even if I identified him, no one will believe me.”

“You heard it fall out of the sofa, right?”

“Even better to make me look guilty. Put it inside the sofa and tip it over so it seems like it just happens to fall out.” She waited for him to agree but he simply stared at her. “It obviously was a good idea. It’s clearly working.”

Cash rolled down his glove to encase the detonator and shoved it in his pocket before looking at her. “What else can I think?”

“I don’t know—maybe that you’ve spent time with me the last few days. Gotten to know me and know I’d never do anything like this.”

He eyed her for a moment. “Or,” Cash said, his voice hard, “it could also be the more obvious answer. You could be the bomber’s accomplice or, worse, the actual bomber. Maybe you made the bomb in this very room and the detonator slipped into the sofa unnoticed.”

His comment sent her taking a step back in shock. “What about the attacks on me? This ransacking? Why would I do that? How could I do it? You’ve been with me the whole time.”

His confidence faltered for a moment but quickly returned. “For starters, you could have hired someone for the break-ins to throw the investigation off track.” He fisted his hands, then released them and crossed his powerful arms as if he didn’t know what to do with himself. “Either way, I have to report finding this to Skyler. She’ll want to bring forensics back out here for a more detailed search for bomb-making supplies and residue to see if we can match anything to the stadium bomb.

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