Kiss Me While I sleep by Linda Howard

Author:Linda Howard [Howard, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345453440
Amazon: 0345453441
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2005-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

The closer they got to Disneyland, the more tense Lily became as her excitement began to fade and memories shoved their way back to the forefront. “Let’s not go to Disneyland,” she blurted.

He quirked his brows. “Why not?”

“Too many memories of Zia.”

“Are you going to avoid everything that reminds you of her?”

His tone was practical, nonchallenging. Lily stared out the window. “Not everything. Not forever. Just not… right now.”

“Okay. Where do you want to go instead?”

“I’m not certain I want to go anywhere. There should be something we can do other than wait for your friend to dig up something on the lab’s security system.”

“Other than driving back and forth in front of the lab and giving the guards a good look at this car, I can’t think of anything.“

Was the man incapable of picking out a car that wasn’t noticeable? Yes, this Renault was gray, just as the Jag had been, but the Megane Renault Sport wasn’t exactly a run-of-the-mill car. At least he hadn’t got a red one.

“How many ways are there to get into a building?” she asked reasonably. “Doors and windows, obviously. You could also go in through a hole in the roof-”

“No one would notice you on top of the building with a chain saw?”

“-but that isn’t feasible,” she finished, giving him a dirty look. “How about from underneath? The complex has to be connected to the sewer system.”

He looked thoughtful. “That’s a possibility. I don’t like it, but it’s a possibility. In the movies it always looks like they’re splashing around in water, but when you think about what goes into sewers, I’ll bet they’re splashing around in something else.”

“Historic Paris is riddled with underground tunnels, but the lab is on the outskirts, so there probably isn’t a decent tunnel anywhere near there.”

“Just out of curiosity, in case we do end up in the sewer, what kind of laboratory is this? What do they do?”

“Medical research.”

“And how is their waste dumped? Is it treated first? All the nasty little critters killed?”

She sighed. Common sense said the waste would be treated before it was dumped into the sewer, in which case there wouldn’t be a direct connection between the complex and the sewer system. Instead, the waste material would go into some sort of holding tank where it was treated, and from there to the sewer. Common sense also said they didn’t want to come in contact with any of the raw sewage.

He said, “I vote we stay out of the sewer.”

“Agreed. Doors and windows are best. Or… we could find some big boxes and have ourselves shipped to the lab.” That idea came out of nowhere.

“Huh.” He considered the idea. “We’d have to find out if all packages and boxes are x-rayed or something, if they’re opened immediately, if they ever get large shipments-things like that. See, we wouldn’t want to come out of our boxes until late at night, at least after midnight, when there are fewer people around. Or does the

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