Reed Ferguson Mystery Box Set 4 by Renee Pawlish

Author:Renee Pawlish [Pawlish, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creative Cat Press
Published: 2020-01-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

12:25 AM

When I opened my eyes again, Holly was staring at me.

“What?” I asked, feeling a bit sullen.

“Are you okay?”

I wanted to say, “Do I look okay?” but resisted. Instead I said, “I’ve got a bit of a headache.” And my shoulder hurts, but I neglected to say that.

She nodded acknowledgment, then drew in a breath and let it out slowly. “How’d you find me?”

I sat up. “Oh, you don’t know, do you?” In all the excitement, we hadn’t talked about that.

She shook her head. “You just said you talked to Kristin.”

“Right.” I explained the events of the last fifteen hours since I’d seen her.

Then her lower lip trembled. “I’ve really made a mess of things.”

My surly side wanted to agree, but what good would that do? “Let’s think about what we can do from here.”

“What am I going to do?” she asked. “I can’t go home now.”

“I know.” I thought for a moment. “I can buy you a plane ticket.”

She shook her head. “It would have to be in my name, which means William can track me down. I’m sure he’s got people looking at the airport and the train station now, and he’ll be checking flight information for me.”

“How?”

She shrugged. “He’s a powerful man, and he has ways.”

That left me with few options. I drew in a breath and let it out slowly. I needed a temporary place for her where she would be safe until I figured out what to do about Rasmus and Andre. I ran through options in my mind. She couldn’t stay at a hotel because she didn’t have any money or credit cards. I could foot the bill, but then how could I keep her from going out? She struck me as someone who couldn’t, or wouldn’t, sit still in her room while we figured out what to do, and that might put her in danger. Have her stay with the Goofballs? No, too close to my place. I nixed Willie’s friend, Darcy, who lived across the street from us, for the same reason. Face it, I thought. There was only one place I could take Holly that would be secluded, with little access to the outside world, where she would be safe. That was Cal’s house. If I could just make him agree. He’d not been happy the last time I’d brought people to him for safekeeping. Granted, it’d been a spoiled young woman and her spoiled young friends, but still…I frowned.

“What?” Holly asked.

“I know where we can go,” I said and reached into my pocket for my cell phone. Then I growled. “No phone.”

She nodded unhappily.

“It’s okay,” I said. “I’ll call him from Willie’s phone.” The last thing I wanted was to try to explain to Cal what was going on with the front desk clerk listening in.

“Who’s Willie?”

“My fiancée. You’ll be staying together until we figure this out.”

“Stay with her?” she asked, then jumped when the revolving doors turned. A couple came in, holding hands and laughing. They walked past us to the elevators.

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