Shadow Force - 3 In the Air Tonight by Stephanie Tyler

Author:Stephanie Tyler
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780440423041
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2005-06-29T02:33:16+00:00

Paige felt the weather echoing her feelings, watched the clouds, with their underbellies of dark gray, nearly black in some spots, stretching endlessly across the sky. A sign of foreboding, a warning she couldn’t afford to ignore.

They would get out before the next band of snowstorms. Had to. But if Jeffrey was in prison, who was here? Who’d killed Harvey?

Mace wasn’t bringing that up, but she’d made the connection herself as soon as she’d calmed down enough about the phone call. Still, she didn’t bring it up to him. If he wasn’t telling her, it was because he was trying to protect her, and really, she couldn’t fault him for that. She’d become like a delicate hothouse flower, someone he needed to care for with kid gloves, and she hated that. Hated that her brother could twist her life so far out of control she’d need a crane to rein it all back in.

Where was she supposed to go from here? Could she hide with Mace in this town forever?

You can’t think about that now. Focus on the immediate future. Gray would tell you that.

Going to see Jeffrey had turned into a necessity. Making the trip when both she and Mace were on the short list of murder suspects could be a real problem, but Mace assured her that he had explained the situation to Ed.

So now Ed would know about her past. She knew how that worked, how the gossip would spread, especially in a town as small as this one.

Mace refused to let her go alone. Had pretty much refused to let her go anywhere inside the bar alone, never mind the next state.

She was tied in knots at the thought of going. “At least the warden got to hear the phone message,” she said finally, after Mace took her packed suitcase off the bed and put it on the floor, next to his own duffel.

She sat on the bed, picking at the quilt, tracing the intricate patterns with her fingers, knowing they were leaving soon.

“Yes, he heard it. And I spoke with Ed.”

“He knows.”

“Not because I told him.” Mace paused in a way that made her tense up. He looked at the ceiling and she wondered if he was talking silently to Gray, asking him for help.

When he met her gaze again, he said, “He was checking into your background. Routine, because of Harvey. He told me … your landlady was found murdered.”

Already numb, she felt her stomach plummet. “Mrs. Morris? How? Why?” she heard herself say before she put it together in her mind. “It’s because of me.”

“We don’t know anything for sure.” He sat next to her. “Can you please breathe?”

He put a hand on the back of her neck and rubbed lightly as she did what he asked—deep breaths taking away some of her nausea.

“Thanks, Mace. I’ll be okay.”

“You do know that Jeffrey’s in the psych ward of the prison, right? His lawyer wanted him in a less restricted environment,” Mace said, as if trying to prepare her.

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