Rainey Days: A Rainey Bell Mystery by R. E. Bradshaw

Author:R. E. Bradshaw [Bradshaw, R. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Crime
ISBN: 9781456448905
Google: _ISQZwEACAAJ
Amazon: 1456448900
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

“He loves you, Katie. He was genuinely worried about you,” Rainey argued.

Katie got up and stomped toward the bathroom door. Rainey followed her.

Katie said, over her shoulder, “Oh, please. Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for his act, too?”

“I’ve known JW longer than you. I think I know when he’s playing one of his characters,” Rainey said, defensively.

Katie turned at the door to the bathroom, her expression fierce, “You have no idea who he really is.” She slammed the bathroom door in Rainey’s face.

Wow, Rainey thought. Katie had gone from zero to pissed, in no time, when JW’s name was mentioned. Whatever he had done, Katie was not about to forgive him. Rainey had made the mistake of defending him, one she would not make again. She listened outside the door for a few minutes. No sounds other than Katie mumbling under her breath could be heard. Rainey decided Katie was not coming out, so she went to the armchair and sat down heavily. The range of emotions she had experienced since coming into this room was exhausting.

Rainey had felt the soaring thrill of Katie in her arms, only to crash against the thought of being the cause of Katie losing her life to a sadistic killer, because Rainey was not paying attention. How could she make Katie understand the responsibility she felt for having left him free to wander amongst them, the guilt that loomed over her for being distracted the first time she had a chance to catch him? It was more powerful than the physical and emotional damage he had done to Rainey.

No matter how Katie felt, Rainey also felt guilty about what she was doing with JW’s wife. Having an affair with a married man or woman was just not something with which Rainey felt comfortable. Rainey was not a cheater. She did not like people who were. The thought that Katie might be just using her, to get back at JW, crossed her mind. It loomed there and then took on a life of its own. Before long Rainey had convinced herself to get up and leave, untangle her life from this dysfunctional chaos.

Katie remained behind the closed bathroom door. Rainey went to the bed, retrieving her Glock and over shirt, which she put on quickly and let herself quietly out of the room. She crossed the hall to the guest room, where she grabbed her overnight bag and took it with her down the stairs. She located her laptop and charger, in the den, and then called Mackie from her cell.

He answered quickly, “What’cha need?”

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