Faces of Evil [1] Obsession by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Pink House Press
Published: 2011-10-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

10:40 p.m.

Dan stuck his half empty cup of dark roast in the holder on the console. With no restroom handy, any more coffee would be a bad idea. He hadn’t pulled this kind of surveillance in years. He could easily have assigned someone else, but he wanted to do this. First, if Dr. Sullivan did have some idea where Dana Sawyer was and decided to attempt an intervention, he wanted to know immediately. Second, Jess had made a deal with him and he wanted to keep her cooperative.

He wanted to keep her close. The Player was one messed up bastard. Whether Jess took the threat seriously or not, Dan wasn’t taking any chances.

“Did Harper say he would have that list of Ford trucks worked by tomorrow afternoon?” Jess scooted around in her seat, trying to find a more comfortable spot.

Dan imagined that her butt was numb just like his. The thought went off on a trek of its own with him dwelling on the idea of just what a cute butt hers happened to be. Dumb, Dan. “He’ll do his best. Older models like that sometimes fall off the radar when they end up in junkyards or in some collector’s garage.”

“I can’t believe Wells and Vernon didn’t find anything else on that computer. I was hoping for more exchanges between Dana and the therapist. Or some interaction with a friend that alluded to something we could use.”

“Speaking of the therapist,” he ventured, “I don’t think she’s going anywhere tonight.” They had been parked across the street from her place for two hours.

And though Dan couldn’t say he hadn’t enjoyed becoming familiar with Jess’s unique scent and soft sighs again, it was different now. She was a married woman. Somehow that intrigued him all the more. Twenty years ago her fragrance had been wild and ferociously ambitious. Her sounds mostly of impatience. She’d tasted wild and sweet, too. Untamed and unstoppable. In the early days she’d made him feel as if anything were possible.

But reality had shattered the dream she’d inspired in him a long, long time ago. That she somehow resurrected those feelings of anticipation made him wonder if his most recent failed marriage had precipitated a mid-life crisis. There was no other reasonable explanation for how she seemed able to stir those less rational sensations. He’d denied the responses for better than twenty-four hours now.

During the last two he’d run out of excuses.

Case in point, the interior of his SUV felt considerably smaller now than it had two hours ago. The space was filled with her. The sound of her voice…the smell of her skin. All those little sighs and soft sounds she made while considering some aspect of the case.

History and experience should serve as better defenses. He and Jess were far too different, each too focused on their own goals and definitions of who they were to compromise. How had twenty years of experience and understanding of the way life works evaporated in hardly more than

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