Heather Graham - 09 The Night Is Watching by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Heather Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Being Sage McCormick was fun.

Jane had never thought of herself as an extrovert, but she did enjoy being in this costume, and she enjoyed seeing the children so excited. Thanks to the cast of the dinner theater, she was quickly at ease answering all manner of questions, telling kids and adults alike the history of the theater and how she had disappeared one night. “I was suspected of all kinds of terrible things,” she told them, emoting more than she’d realized she could, “but now people know—I was murdered right in the theater and buried under the floorboards!”

Posing for pictures and playing the part of Sage was good; it distracted her from worrying about Sloan.

It was a foolish thing to do, she reminded herself. He’d signed on the line that he was willing to give his life for his work; she had done the same.

She loved her job. She had to go where her work took her and her real home was Arlington, Virginia, where the Krewe units had their offices and where she’d found the town house she loved. Okay, so she could leave a home. But she was an important part of her Krewe, and they solved cases when others couldn’t.

Not that Sloan had asked her to do anything, or vice versa; they’d slept together once. She didn’t regret it.

No, she really wanted to do it again....

But whatever their involvement, it didn’t matter; she’d be worried about anyone investigating a murder. Law enforcement officers everywhere signed up for this, and it didn’t stop those who cared about them from worrying about it.

“Hey, time for the old shoot-out,” Cy said, nudging Brian.

“The shoot-out.” Brian grinned at Jane. “I love this part of the show!”

“Well, of course he loves it—he gets to be fastest on the draw,” Valerie said.

“The things we’ll do for art!” Cy said. “Yeah, sadly, I’m Mean Bill Jenkins and Brian gets to play Savage Sam Osterly. And Osterly outdrew Jenkins.”

Henri Coque was back at his podium. “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, make way, if you please! Not long after the lynching of Aaron Munson, the streets of Lily grew even wilder! Sheriff Fogerty struggled to hold on to a deputy, but men were afraid in Lily. He did his best to protect the law, and he turned a blind eye to the men who fought in the streets. On January 17, 1873, two of the meanest, most vicious outlaws ever to come to town met on Main Street, right here, ready to duel it out. They say it was over a chorus girl from the saloon.”

As he spoke, Cy walked out onto the street and waved to the crowd.

For a moment, Jane was distracted. She turned to look back at the Gilded Lily.

There was definitely someone at her bedroom window.

“Mean Bill Jenkins fought on the Union side during the war. He was something of a hero when he was with his Indiana unit at Gettysburg, or so the history books tell us,” Henri said.

Jane turned back to watch the action.

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