Out of Splinters and Ashes by Colleen L. Donnelly

Author:Colleen L. Donnelly [Donnelly, Colleen L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509217786
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2018-07-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Cate appeared from between two buildings and disappeared in a solid run down the street. Dietrich stopped. Their paths had nearly crossed. He stepped back and veered toward the campus. He was here to relax, let the myriad of data stored in his mind realign and fall into place.

He stopped again and glanced back at the empty sidewalk where she’d run. Where her fiancé appeared, stepping out from between the same two buildings she had. Emerson turned the direction she’d gone, but he walked instead of ran. “If you really want to catch her, you need to try,” Dietrich whispered. Even he knew that much. Emerson’s senatorial clip was a halted walk now, one that stayed well behind his fiancée, one that would be easy to trip up if Dietrich was so inclined. Dietrich watched Emerson go. Cate had enough to contend with. Enough.

Dietrich glanced at his watch. Time was ticking away. Crawley was gone, a complication that would slow Dietrich’s plans, walking into an investigation that had been going on in pretrial conferences before Crawley officially knew. McCoy had diverted the focus elsewhere as the army pried into his activities before and during the war. Journalistic collaboration, often not honest, gave Dietrich this much information. A traded favor with a contact in Washington who fed him the background on McCoy and the investigation in exchange for the sole right to publish the story himself when it was done. Randall Templeton. Dietrich had agreed to Randall’s terms because Randall was ruthless, quick for a kill, and Dietrich needed quick. If Crawley had committed some crime, really had run the Olympics under a false name, had been in Berlin, then…

He hurried to his car. Crawley’s trial wasn’t far away. He’d use his journalistic privileges to gain entrance. It was time to see the little runner’s grandfather.

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