Fall from Grace by Charles Benoit

Author:Charles Benoit
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-12-26T22:00:00+00:00

He was on his own now.

A half hour and one question to go.

How hard could it be?

Thirty minutes and two sheets of scrap paper later, Sawyer picked a number between one and a hundred and wrote it down.

CHAPTER

20

“WHO WAS THAT girl you were with at Starbucks?”

Great.

He couldn’t say he wasn’t there because obviously somebody saw him. It couldn’t have been Zoë, because if she saw him at a Starbucks talking to a girl she didn’t know, she would have come in and introduced herself.

Or something like that.

She knew he was at Starbucks and she knew he had been talking to a girl and if he tried to pretend he wasn’t he’d only make it worse.

And he couldn’t try to joke his way out of it with a Which Starbucks? or a Which girl? as if he was always bumping into strange girls at Starbucks all over town and couldn’t be expected to keep them straight.

They both knew him better than that.

Nope, somebody had seen him and of course that somebody had to let Zoë know, and now there was no way out of it, he had to admit he’d been there and that he had talked to a girl, the crime of the century exposed.

“It was Francis’s granddaughter.”

There was no way out of it, but it didn’t have to be the truth.

“Who’s Francis?”

“The guy I work with.”

“The one that taught at Harvard? The old guy?”

“Yeah, him. And it was Notre Dame.”

A pause. “So how do you know her?”

“I don’t. She stopped by his house when I was there yesterday.”

“What were you talking about?”

“Nothing. Just hello and stuff.”

A longer pause. “What did she give you?”

She knew about that, too. Well, what did she give him? There were a lot of ways he could have answered that—hope, friendship, a guilty conscience—but he kept it simple and close to the truth.

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