Rizzoli & Isles 09 - The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen

Author:Tess Gerritsen [Gerritsen, Tess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-52660-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

“It’s not as if you didn’t see this coming,” said Gabriel as he and Jane drove home with Regina asleep in the backseat. “They were two lonely people, and look how happy they are now. They’re perfectly matched.”

“Yeah. She cooks. He eats.”

“They could do a lot worse.”

“They’re both on the rebound. It’s too soon for them to get married.”

“Life is short, Jane. You should know that better than anyone. It can be gone in an instant. All it takes is an icy road, a drunk driver.”

Or a bullet in a dark alley. Yes, she did know, because she saw life cut short far too often. Saw how every death cast ripples among the living. She remembered the ravaged face of Joey Gilmore’s mother and the grief that clouded the eyes of Patrick Dion when he spoke of his daughter, Charlotte. Even nineteen years later, those ripples were still battering the survivors.

“I dread having to break this news to my brothers,” she said.

“You don’t think they’ll take it well?”

“Frankie’s going to throw a fit. He hates the idea of Mom and another man, you know …”

“Sleeping together?”

Jane winced. “I admit, that’s what gives me the heebie-jeebies. I like Korsak. He’s a decent man and he’ll treat her right. But geez, she’s my mother.”

Gabriel laughed. “And your mother still has sex. Accept it. Just call Frankie and get it over with.”

But when they got home, she put off the assignment and avoided the phone entirely. Instead she set a kettle on the stove and sat down at the kitchen table to look at her library books again. The illustration of the Monkey King glared back at her, paws brandishing his staff, an image so threatening that only reluctantly did she touch the book to flip to the next page.

Chapter Nine. The Story of Chen O.

The great city of Ch’ang-an had long been the capital of all China. At this time, Tai Tsing of the dynasty of Tang was on the throne. The whole land was at peace.

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