Fear Familiar by Carolyn Haines

Author:Carolyn Haines [Haines, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: KaliOka Press
Published: 2017-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

In the floating light of passing cars, Peter examined Eleanor’s face. She hadn’t spoken a word since they left Magdalena’s house. The strange and threatening message delivered by the older woman had had a paralyzing effect on her.

A million questions rose in his mind, but he kept his mouth closed. What was her involvement? He was beginning to strongly doubt that she knew anything about the lab break-in, Magdalena, Evans or anything else.

On the spur of the moment, he decided a simple test was in order.

“How about a moonlight drive?”

“What?” She turned to him, her ivory skin luminous in the passing headlights of the cars.

“I said how about a drive along the river? I know a nice, quiet place where we can talk. You said you had something to tell me.”

“A drive would be fine.” She looked away from him, lost in her own thoughts again.

“Pier 27 has a wonderful view of the city from the river. I have a friend with a houseboat.”

“That’s nice. I’ve never been on the river.” She spoke like an automaton.

“Pier 27 is a great place.” He was pushing her to make the connection.

She looked at him. “Then let’s go.”

Her reaction was completely innocent. He turned toward the river, hoping that he wasn’t making a serious miscalculation. He wanted to check out the AFA rally. He’d wanted to find a branch of that organization for a long time. The AFA was intensely secret, and for good cause. Their activities had devastated a number of different research groups. If Eleanor was as innocent as she pretended, she was the perfect spy to send inside. The flyer was essentially an invitation. They’d be waiting, watching. Peter’s spine tingled. He couldn’t go because he might be recognized; Magdalena had almost remembered. But Eleanor was perfect.

“Peter, if a woman started seeing her dead ex-husband behind every bush and trash can, would you say that she might be having a nervous breakdown?”

Eleanor’s question drew him from the tangle of his own thoughts. She was troubled; he hadn’t realized the extent. “I don’t know, Eleanor.” He smiled at her, reaching over and pulling her against him. “I think you need a little species-to-species comforting.”

In the darkness she smiled for the first time. “I think I do, too. But it isn’t going to make what’s happening around me go away. Today I called the newspaper and the police in Colorado. I had to ask them to make certain that Carter was dead.”

Peter’s shock was evident in the way he turned to face her, hands tightening on the steering wheel. “Why?”

“They assured me he was dead. Absolutely dead.” Her voice began to tremble. “Even Carter’s best friend believes he’s dead.”

“And you don’t?”

“I did. Until he appeared in the apartment building parking garage.”

“What are you saying?” He swerved to miss a car that had slowed.

“He was waiting for me. He came out of the shadows and he threatened me. He said he wasn’t dead and that I had something he wanted.”

“So that’s why you freaked out and nearly ran over Joey.

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