Perry, Thomas - Fidelity by Perry Thomas

Author:Perry, Thomas [Perry, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780151012923
Google: v_vwQwAACAAJ
Amazon: B001OMHSIA
Goodreads: 2194374
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

22

Jerry Hobart showered and changed his clothes to be sure there were no glass fragments sticking to him and to remove the gunpowder residue from his hands, but he knew he wouldn't sleep. He sat on the bed in his hotel room and looked out over the lights in the San Fernando Valley. It was a clear night, and from his window on the tenth floor he could see the long rows of street lamps stretching off to the west, where they seemed to lose their definition and fade to become only an impression that the valley was lighter than the ridge of mountains to the north or the sky above.

Hobart was frustrated and angry that he could not go back out and find Emily Kramer right away. Now that he had gone to her house a second time, she would be hiding, staying with someone probably, and maybe with an armed guard. Phil Kramer's office was out of reach now, too. Hobart was not going to be able to go back there.

But he had planted a suggestion in Emily Kramer's skull, and now he had to hope that the suggestion had stuck with her and started to irritate and intrigue her until she couldn't keep from acting on it. He still wasn't sure whether she had known all along everything her husband knew about Theodore Forrest, or had known nothing. If Hobart had to take a guess, he would now bet that Phil Kramer hadn't told her anything. She had seemed genuinely hurt and disappointed when he'd told her that her husband had been holding valuable secret information about a rich man. Hobart had also noticed that she did not doubt it was true.

Hobart brought back the sight of her standing there beside her bed saying she had just learned that her husband was cheating on her. The way she had blurted it out had surprised her as much as it surprised Hobart. It was as though the interrogation he was conducting was, to her, only a part of a much larger, unpleasant conversation she was having with herself. Saying he was cheating on her had made sense to her for an instant. It had seemed to her to be proof that her husband was in the habit of lying to her. Hobart supposed a detective who blackmailed people might also be somebody who wouldn't tell his wife what he was doing. That wasn't a stretch of the imagination. He wondered what Phil had planned to tell Emily when he had his million dollars, or whatever price he had set.

Suddenly Hobart realized he had made a false assumption. Phil Kramer had been cheating on her, and he had not told her where he was going the night Whitley had shot him. Kramer had not been planning to walk in the house with a sack of money and say, "Honey, I'm home. Look what I've got." He had been planning to divorce her without letting her know the money existed, or maybe not come home that night at all.

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