Justice by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Action & Adventure, Murder, Arizona, Suspense, Policewomen
ISBN: 9780373513369
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2004-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

A t eight o’ clock on Friday morning Christine Evans was still holding her own in Intensive Care. The surgeon had said that, if she made it through those first critical hours after the surgery, she would probably survive. But he couldn’ t give any assurances.

The bullet had done some serious damage, and the blood loss was extensive. Basically it was a miracle she was alive at all. Kayla couldn’ t help thinking she was hanging on so she could identify whoever had attempted to end her life. She just hoped her friend made it. Burying two friends in one year would simply be too much.

Kayla had called the Cassandras. A forensics team had swept the crime scene, under her partner’ s watchful eye. She wanted to get back over there first thing this morning and go through the steps herself. A murderer just didn’ t walk into a person’ s home and take a couple of shots without leaving some sort of evidence. All one had to do was look closely.

Oftentimes a person familiar with the environment would notice things a trained professional wouldn’ t. Kayla had been in Christine’ s bungalow enough times to know the way things should be. That wasn’ t the only place she intended to look. The killer might have been looking for access to students’ files or other sensitive records.

Since Christine couldn’ t tell her what had happened, Kayla had to go on speculation. First she had to rule out robbery, then revenge or an act of passion. Her gut told her that none of those would be the perp’ s motive.

Every instinct she possessed screamed at her that this was about Rainy. About the egg harvesting. But she had to view this like any other case. The fact that she had close personal ties to the school as well as the victim didn’ t change things. Standard operating procedure dictated the steps.

To hell with SOP. As soon as Christine’ s doctor made his rounds and gave Kayla an update, she was going directly to Athena Academy. Maybe following instincts wasn’ t the course most cops would take, but, in Kayla’ s experience, when she didn’ t follow her instincts, things usually turned out disastrously.

Half an hour later the surgeon checked in on his patient and advised Kayla that it would likely be touch and go for a few more days. The coma she was in was a good thing, since it allowed Christine’ s body to concentrate solely on healing itself. The doctor explained that many times after catastrophic trauma, a coma would be induced if a patient didn’ t lapse into one on her own. Like last night, he couldn’ t offer any real assurances other than her chances of recovery were well within the range to offer hope.

The trip from Phoenix to Athens was spent in deep supplication for her friend’ s speedy recovery.

As she pulled up in front of Christine’ s bungalow on the Athena campus, she punched in her partner’ s cell number and waited for him to answer.

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