Rocky Mountain Mystery by Cassie Miles

Author:Cassie Miles
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459232495
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

After a police escort to David's town house and a thorough search of the premises by armed experts, she and David were alone. Finally.

Blair flung herself onto the sofa and watched as David reset the burglar alarm by coding numbers into a keypad in the foyer.

"Now we're safe," he said. "I just changed the de-activation code so nobody else has it. If anybody breaks a window or opens a door, this alarm goes off like an air raid siren."

"You usually don't use the alarm, do you?"

"Not when I'm in town." He stepped down into the sunken living room to join her on the fawn leather sofa. "Tired?"

"You bet."

"Well, we're in luck," he said. "My cleaning lady came today so the guest bedroom is all made up. And she also purchased some basic groceries. So we won't starve to death."

"She sounds like a jewel."

"The bachelor's best friend," he said. "Are you ready to crash into bed?"

"I'm not really sleepy." She was still stirred up, cruising on an adrenaline rush. In the past two hours she'd gone through a terrifying attack and a grueling period of interrogation with all kinds of law-enforcement people getting right up in her face—asking questions, making demands. Weathers had been relentless in trying to get a description from her.

Though she told the detectives over and over that it was dark in the swimming pool, and she couldn't see, they insisted that she must have noticed something. "After all that questioning, I felt like making something up. I would have said anything to get those guys off my case."

"A lot of witnesses do." He leaned back on the sofa and casually draped his arm around her shoulder. "I usually do my interviews a couple of days after the police have talked to the witnesses. Many of them admit they aren't sure what they saw. But they remember other details."

"And you use those details when you're writing your story."

"That's the real story to me," he said. "How random violence changes people's lives."

She remembered reading one of his stories about a sniper who shot four people. Through the eyes of a witness, he described an approaching thunderstorm and the way the blood on the pavement was diluted by raindrops. Though he never directly mentioned sorrow at the senseless loss of life, she'd felt it. "I like the way you write."

"Thanks."

She glanced up at his profile. A handsome man. With his black hair and blue eyes, there was no denying his attractiveness. But men like David often got overlooked. He was steady and casual. Not a "bad boy." Nor was he the toughest guy on the block.

O'Hara, Adam and even Weathers were more macho. They swaggered and postured and vied for the position of top dog. And while those other men locked horns, it was David who quietly took control. Like tonight. From the moment he carried her into the bathroom to his showdown with Weathers and O'Hara when he backed her insistence not to have a bodyguard, he was supportive, steadfast and solid.

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