Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2010-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

They ate with surprising gusto, given the circumstances. But, Carrie thought, each of them felt the way her wise-beyond-his-years son did: that they needed to stay as strong as possible for Sadie’s sake. Because that son of a bitch who had taken Kyle’s life was not going to take Sadie’s.

She wouldn’t let that happen.

They killed two hours between finding a Denny’s, eating and stopping to gas up The Beast before driving back toward the lab.

Carrie kept an eye on Sam in the backseat, and within a few minutes Gabe apparently grew curious to see why and peeked at the boy himself.

Sam’s head was sinking slowly to one side, then bouncing up again, as he fought to hold off sleep. And again, and then finally, his head stayed down as he sank deep and fast.

Gabe glanced at Carrie. “You put something in his decaf, didn’t you?”

“Just the tiniest bit. Let him sleep now, while he can. It’ll wear off by the time we get home.”

“You love him a lot,” Gabe said, and it wasn’t a question.

Carrie gazed back at her son, and her heart went soft and warm. “He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. My miracle, that’s what he is.”

“Your miracle. You’ve said that before.”

She brought her gaze around, realized she’d probably said too much, but reminded herself that this was Gabe she was talking to. This man could be trusted; she sensed that to her core. And that was an odd thing for her to feel about a man like him. A drifter, like her father. But for once she was going with her heart and not her head.

“I was told I couldn’t have children. I’d just about given up hope. And then he just…happened.”

“He…happened?” He frowned at her. “You mean you got pregnant or you adopted him?”

She shifted her eyes away from his, unable to look him in the eye and lie to him, yet telling the lie automatically. “Got pregnant, of course.” And then she added her long-practiced elaboration. “You mean you can’t tell? Most people think he looks like me.”

He lifted his brows. “I don’t think he looks anything like you,” he said.

She met his eyes, then looked away again. Okay, so the power of suggestion didn’t work on him. “I don’t, either,” she said with a false laugh. “But other people are always seeing something I don’t.”

He seemed…almost disappointed. As if he were waiting for her to tell him something more, something real. As if he knew, somehow, that she had just lied to him. But that was ridiculous. That was her own guilty conscience playing with her mind. He didn’t know. How could he?

She thought about changing the subject, gave up, and turned on the radio to fill the silence for the remainder of the drive back to the lab. And then she and Gabe were getting out, leaving Sam to sleep off his “decaf” in the backseat.

Marcus came out the back door, handed the cooler to Carrie and said, “Good, I can call the police now.

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