Neon by Elise Noble

Author:Elise Noble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elise Noble
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

“I WANT TO know why Bradley was taken,” Emmy said as they jogged back to the hotel. “I mean, who are we up against here?”

“Have you pissed anyone off lately?” Dan asked.

“Too many people to count.” Emmy glanced at Nigel, who'd tagged onto the back of their group. “But for various reasons, most of them aren't able to be with us tonight. How about the rest of you?”

“Same,” Carmen said.

Dan shook her head. “Nobody who knows my identity.”

“I found a new way of hiding my IP address,” Mack said, tossing her mane of red hair over her shoulder. She had a spring in her step that had been missing since they arrived at Cedar Ridge.

“Bradley got in an argument at Bloomingdale’s last week over the last pair of Valentino palazzo pants,” Tia put in.

“Why? I've never even seen him wear palazzo pants.”

“They were for you.”

“I don't wear them either.”

“Apparently you do now.”

“Oh, for goodness sakes.” At least she'd have somewhere to hide her knife. “So he won then?”

“Of course. Bradley can out-shop anyone.”

“Do you know who the argument was with?”

Tia shook her head. “It was just a bunch of shouting then he distracted her with an asymmetrical skirt and ran.”

“Kidnapping seems like a drastic response.”

A small voice came from the back of the group. “I think I might know who took him.”

Six heads swivelled to stare at Nigel.

“I thought you said you didn't get a good look at the men?” Emmy said.

“I didn't. But I've got an awful feeling they were here to take me instead.”

The group reached the hotel, and Emmy put a finger to her lips as they tiptoed past the main reception desk, taking a few seconds to look at Nigel with fresh eyes. He was younger—twenty-one or twenty-two to Bradley's twenty-nine. In daylight, there was no way his rounded face could be mistaken for Bradley's high cheekbones, but they shared the same build, and Bradley had dyed his hair a similar shade of blond to Nigel's a few days before they got to Cedar Ridge. In the dark? Yes, a case of mistaken identity was possible.

Emmy used the pair of bobby pins holding her hair back to make short work of the lock on Bradley's room, and once the group got inside, she pushed the door closed behind them and pointed at the chair by the window.

“Sit,” she instructed Nigel.

He took one look at her and sat.

“So, Nigel, tell me why you think somebody wanted to kidnap you. I'm dying to hear this.”

“Uh, it's a long story.”

“Well, seeing as Bradley's life is in danger, how about we just go with a summary for now?”

“O-o-okay, I mean, yes... I'm not sure where to start.”

Emmy tapped her foot. “Any time in the next five seconds is fine.”

“I saw a client get murdered by her husband, and now I'm on the run from him,” Nigel blurted.

Emmy stood back and nodded thoughtfully. “I can see how that would do it, but why didn't you just go to the police?”

“Because the local police chief was one of the men who helped him dispose of the body.

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