Fade to Black by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

9

“I’ll go with you,” Marnie said.

Bryan shook his head. He’d returned to the duplex and was ready to take George for a nice long walk around the neighborhood.

“It’s better if you don’t,” Bryan told her, glancing over at Jackson.

The field director picked up his cue.

“The man in your pool was shot. We have no idea if someone was out there hoping you’d come home—”

“No, come on. We know what went on yesterday, thanks to Cara Barton. She saw a Blood-bone character was here, and whoever it was dressed up as Blood-bone, that person apparently lured the other man here so he could shoot and kill him and leave him in my pool.”

“That doesn’t really matter. What matters is a man was shot. A killer out there has a gun. If someone is going to jump in front of you to stop a bullet, they have to know the bullet is coming,” Bryan explained.

Marnie flushed. “I don’t want anyone to have to stop a bullet for me.”

“Then let me take the dog,” Bryan said. “Are Bridget and Angela back yet?”

Jackson shook his head. “They should be another hour. The alarm installers will arrive just about the same time.”

“I’ll be back in an hour,” Bryan promised.

“If they do arrive, I am here,” Jackson reminded him.

“Of course,” he said quickly. He had never meant to imply that his friend—field director for an ever-growing unit of special agents—wasn’t capable of keeping Marnie safe while an alarm system was installed.

And yet, in a way, he had done so.

Ego or something else? he asked himself.

He never would have imagined it—with his parents being who they were, growing up he’d come across tons of beautiful people, some of them talented, some of them nothing more than gorgeous egoists—but he was definitely being affected by this particular beautiful person.

And that meant he was being foolish. He was not the only one who could keep her safe.

Jackson was watching him, the hint of a smile on his lips.

“Cara was here again,” Marnie interjected. “She was here, in fact, until just a few minutes ago. And then...”

Marnie lifted her hands into the air, indicating Cara had disappeared into thin air.

“Ah,” Bryan murmured. “Well, then, George and I are off. Even here, between Universal Studios and Hollywood, I keep thinking someone would have noticed a guy walking around in a costume like that.”

“One would hope,” Jackson said.

Bryan had George on his leash; they headed off down the walk.

Barham and the surrounding streets were busy—with cars. It didn’t appear anyone was out. Then again, he hadn’t expected people to just be standing on their sidewalks.

He didn’t want to get too far from Marnie’s place. By pretending to allow George a tremendous interest in a palm tree, he loitered just down the block from the duplex long enough for a woman in a casual halter dress and flip-flops to come out of her house with her garbage. She looked at him. He waved.

She went back inside.

He headed halfway down the next block.

This time, George was allowed a keen interest in a cherry shrub.

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