Killer Insight by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-05-15T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I was walking on a path in the woods. All around me I felt the forest closing in, and panic coursed through my heart. Ahead I heard a voice I recognized, my grandmother’s. She was reciting a nursery rhyme she said to me at bedtime when I was a child:

Now I lay me down to sleep…

I pray the Lord my soul to keep…

And if I die before I wake…

I pray the Lord my soul to take…

“Grams?” I called to her. “Grams? Where are you?”

“I’m here, Abby-gabby. Come on; you’ll miss the movie,” she called from somewhere up ahead.

I hurried through the forest, running now away from an increasing sense of danger. I came to a fork in the road, and in the middle of the fork was the crumbling ruins of a building. The mailbox read, ABBY COOPER, and I looked at it curiously, because I’d seen it before, but I couldn’t place where. My grandmother stood, beautiful and radiant, on the steps of the crumbling ruin, a warm and inviting smile on her face. She pointed right, then left at each path in the fork and said to me, “Abby-gabby. Which way will you go?”

Before I could answer her I heard a voice behind me say, “Time’s up!”

I turned toward the voice, but couldn’t discern where it was coming from.

“Time to get up!” the voice said, and my eyes flew open.

“Huh? Wha…?” I said, groggily sitting up and blinking around the room, trying to get my bearings.

“It’s time to get up, Abby. You’ll be late for the rehearsal dinner if you don’t jump in the shower and get ready now,” Vivian said from the doorway to my bedroom.

I shook my head, trying to clear the cobwebs, and said, “Thanks, Viv. Be right there.”

She nodded and shut the door. I pivoted and put my feet on the floor but sat there to collect my thoughts for a second. The dream bothered me. This was the second time my grandmother had made contact with me, and I wondered about her message. I could feel it was important, that there was something about a decision to be made and it was vital to choose the right direction, but the decision involved was something of a mystery.

With a tired sigh I pushed off the bed and shuffled to gather my dress, makeup bag and hair supplies. Making my way to the bathroom I could hear Viv on the phone with the taxi company. “We’ll need the cab to arrive by five thirty and not a moment later or there’ll be no tip for the driver….” Good ol’ Viv. She was one tough cookie, all right.

An hour later I was dressed in a gorgeous black velvet gown that showed plenty of leg and played to my strengths (small waist and broad shoulders) while hiding my shortcomings (small boobs and a bubble butt). I’d taken extra care with my hair, curling it into lots of tight spirals that cascaded down past my shoulders. This

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