Senseless by Mary Burton

Author:Mary Burton [Burton, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4201-2255-8
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Eva could barely concentrate or breathe as she stared down at the row of numbers Bobby had written down. She wasn’t so good with stories or coloring but she could add numbers and that’s what they had done for fun earlier today. They both liked puzzles.

But with Garrison so close, staring at her, she could barely breathe, barely concentrate on what Bobby was saying. When she heard the pub door open and close, she dared a glance back over her shoulder and discovered he’d gone.

Her shoulders slumped forward. “You’ve done a great job, Bobby. I like the way you wrote the number five. It’s not backward this time.”

“I traced your numbers a couple of times.”

The child reminded her of a dried sponge, starved for anything she could pour into his brain. She took the pen from him and wrote five more simple math problems. “Add these up and then I’ll check them. Once you’re done we’ll get you ready for bed.”

A normal kid would have balked at bedtime and math problems. But he nodded, so happy to please. “Okay.”

“Monster check in five minutes?”

“Will do.”

His acquiescence broke her heart. The kid had been starved not just physically but mentally as well.

When he dashed back into the kitchen, she turned her attention to the rows of liquor bottles, pretending to search for something. She’d inventoried and alphabetized the bottles her first night and knew not only where each was located, but also how much remained in each. But she needed the pretense to gather her thoughts.

Just because Garrison had come here didn’t mean this case would repeat the last. She’d done nothing wrong. Her arrival at the fire had been coincidence. And if he wanted to ram some cop theory down her throat, she wasn’t having it. She wasn’t a frightened kid anymore. She was an adult who’d read most of the legal textbooks.

She could handle whatever he threw at her.

Still, the star. Lisa had been burned with a star just like her. And so had Sara. The odds of a killer choosing a four-pointed star like the one that marred her shoulder were beyond calculation.

Eva grabbed a rag and started to polish glasses. She’d done her best to block out what had happened years ago. And for the most part she’d done okay. She almost never stood in front of the mirror anymore and stared at the scar on her shoulder or cried at night when she felt alone. When Josiah had raped her, he’d killed the innocent girl. Prison had transformed that wounded girl into a harder, stronger woman.

But the past now screamed to be noticed. Who would have done this to Lisa and Sara? To kill them so savagely. She wouldn’t have wished that on anyone.

She’d thought that once Darius Cross had died, she could return home and recapture some of the old life she’d had to forfeit. But maybe coming back had been a mistake.

Panic continued to churn in her belly when she took Bobby upstairs and got him ready for bed.

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