Improper Conduct by Patricia Rosemoor

Author:Patricia Rosemoor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

HAVING GOTTEN A CALL from Gideon that one of his employees had spotted Louise, Isabel rushed down the stairs into Club Undercover, Nick at her heels. Leaving her backpack behind the hostess’s stand, she stopped just inside the entrance, her gaze sweeping over the young customers who populated the space. On stage, two teenagers in white face were miming a romantic tryst, and members of the audience were hooting and calling out dialogue for them.

“Do you see her?”

“No. But it’s difficult to see anyone up there,” she said, indicating the tables and booths that rose several levels above them.

“So what are we waiting for?” Nick asked, starting up one side of the raised seating area.

Isabel followed and got a closer look at every teenager in the house.

No Louise.

When they went full circle and ended up back on the main level, Nick asked, “Now what?”

Taking one last look around, she froze and gripped his arm. “Rosalyn!” she said. “Louise’s best friend. The girl who lives in this neighborhood and who Louise went to see. Over there.”

As quickly as the crowd would let them pass, they crossed to the table where the redhead’s focus was on a cute boy with curly blond hair. The redhead turned, and as she connected with Isabel, her eyes widened and her sappy lovesick smile faded.

“Isabel, hi.”

“We need to talk away from the noise.”

Sighing, the girl whispered something in her date’s ear, then got up and moved toward the entrance.

Isabel barely waited until she’d stepped foot in the club’s foyer before she turned on the redhead. “Okay, Rosalyn, start talking!” Used to dealing with her own teenage sister, she took on the same stern persona that she sometimes had to with Louise. “You said you didn’t know where my sister was, but people saw you together tonight.”

Sometimes a stretch of the truth went a long way. The bluff worked. Rosalyn visibly caved.

“All right, I did see her,” the girl admitted, “but only for a few minutes. I don’t know where she is now, honest. Lulu called me earlier and said she needed to see me.”

“So she met you here like she wanted. What did she tell you?”

“Tell me?” Rosalyn’s forehead creased in a frown. “I don’t get it.”

So Rosalyn didn’t know, which probably meant Louise hadn’t told anyone.

Relieved that she didn’t have the situation with her father to deal with just yet, Isabel said, “I just was wondering what you talked about.”

“Not about where she was staying if that’s what you mean,” Rosalyn assured her. “We didn’t even have time to talk. She said she had to go to the ladies’ room and the next thing I know I see her running out the door.”

Isabel started. “Running? Why?”

The girl shrugged. “I, uh, was kind of busy. I just figured she wanted to leave, is all. That was maybe ten minutes ago.”

“I missed my sister by a mere ten minutes.” The breath whooshed out of her. “Oh, my God.”

Nick put an arm around Isabel and steadied her. “Are you sure she won’t be back?” he asked Rosalyn.

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