Investigating 101 by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Todd set his phone to vibrate. Braddock had called twice already. He would be mad, but Todd wasn’t about to risk Braddock figuring out he was up to something. The man was entirely too perceptive. Todd definitely wasn’t used to anyone being able to read him so well.

It wasn’t as if what he was about to do was that bad. Wright was dead. Both patients, Molly Landon and Delia Neely, were missing in action. If one or both were in trouble, what he was about to do could possibly help.

Maybe the idea was slightly illegal, but sometimes walking that thin line was the only way.

He was rationalizing, he knew. But he couldn’t stop now. He was on to something…he could feel it in his gut.

Braddock would blow a fuse, but Todd had no intention of ignoring where this lead might take him. Technically his orders were to pass along to Braddock anything he learned through Serena so that the more experienced investigator could follow up.

Except, how could he prove himself to Victoria if he waited around doing nothing but babysitting Serena?

Not that it was such a chore. He glanced at the woman next to him in the car. He thought about telling her that she should definitely wear her hair down all the time but he had an idea where that would lead. Straight to her telling him where to get off.

A ripple of lust went through him. He should never have started that massage. In the beginning his intentions had been honorable. He’d wanted to help. But the more he’d touched her and the more she’d responded to his touch…well, he’d worked up a hell of a physical condition. One that was way off limits when he was on the job.

“I must have been out of my mind to let you talk me into this,” she muttered without glancing his way.

The sun had dropped below the treetops but its fading reach still provided enough of a glow for him to study her profile. She didn’t like being involved with anything underhanded, which pretty much eliminated her, in his opinion, from any sort of suspect list.

She might not particularly like Landon, and no doubt considered him responsible for his missing wife, but she had no desire to harm him in any way. Serena Blake was genuinely concerned with helping the woman who was, or had been, her closest friend.

For the first time since he’d been assigned to this case he hoped like hell it wasn’t too late to save Molly Landon and her unborn child. That goal had, of course, been in the back of his mind from the beginning, but now the missing woman was more than a detail in a case…she was real. Real because her fate would greatly affect the woman sitting in the encroaching gloom with him right now.

Todd leaned forward, watched a woman dressed in a nurse’s uniform exit the clinic’s side entrance. “That’s the last one.” The other three members of the staff had left nearly an hour ago.

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