Operation Notorious by Justine Davis

Author:Justine Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“Why would I be in danger? I know it was my place, but the police said Laurel’s murder was personal—”

“I know what they said,” Gavin answered. “I’m not saying you are, just that we don’t know for sure you’re not.”

“But...after all this time?”

“You moved, almost immediately after.”

“I had to. I couldn’t live in that place anymore.” She suppressed a shudder, fought the images that wanted to roll through her mind like some horror film trailer.

“Of course not.”

She studied him for a moment, trying to gauge the level of—and the reason for—his concern. Some part of her wanted to think there was a very personal reason, but her common sense screamed otherwise. “You think he just hasn’t found me yet?”

He gentled his tone; he clearly hadn’t meant to upset her. “Katie, the police are probably right, but until they break the case, you can’t be positive. I’m just saying be a little aware of that.”

In other words, don’t assume you’re safe. Now that was unsettling. And it was an effort for her to steady herself.

“Was Detective Davidson chatty?” When he lifted an eyebrow at her she added, “Gavin de Marco having a cup of coffee with a local cop is worth several posts, with photos.” He grimaced. She persevered. “Did you learn anything new?”

“Nothing he would say officially, no.”

“And unofficially?”

He seemed to hesitate. “They have something. But Davidson’s not completely convinced. Are you sure nobody else knew that Laurel had moved in with you?”

“No,” she said, earning a look. “I mean, Ross knew, because she told him. And my dad knew, because I needed his key for her. And my landlords knew, because they needed to. They could have mentioned it to someone. All I know for sure is that I didn’t go around telling anyone else.”

“What about Laurel?”

“I can’t be positive, of course, but I doubt it. She wasn’t happy about the breakup, didn’t want to talk about it, so I don’t think she would have advertised that she’d moved out.”

“But as you just pointed out, she wouldn’t have had to advertise. One mention to an oversharer and it’s all over the internet.”

She couldn’t argue that, not when his photograph—in which he had looked darkly handsome and very, very intense—had shown up while he was still sitting in the place with Detective Davidson.

She shifted her gaze back to the papers spread around the floor. The pages of bold handwriting drew her eye first, and she noticed the flair of the question marks after several entries, and the intensity of the underlining in other places. She wondered what a graphologist would make of it, and guessed it would be what hundreds of articles had already said: Gavin de Marco was exactly like his writing—bold, confident and intense.

She scanned the other papers, copies of reports, lists, some other kind of official file that looked like a short list of offenses, a map printout, a stack of photos with Ross Carr’s image on top, a copy of the picture that Laurel had always had in a frame on her nightstand.

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