Stalking the Kilt by Keely Jakes

Author:Keely Jakes [Jakes, Keely]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Late Friday afternoon, Sully stopped just inside the door to the meeting room where the last session of the day would be starting in a few minutes. When someone behind him excused themselves, he stepped out of the doorway so those behind him could enter. His gaze swept the crowd, but yet again there was no sign of the curly brown hair of his quarry. Dane had been elusive as rain in the desert, and Sully was ready to tear the building apart to find him. He needed an explanation as to why he had woken up alone instead of wrapped around the man who had captured his imagination, and more than a little bit of his heart.

Sully ground his molars together as his frustration wound a little tighter. Dane should be here since he was listed as one of six authors on this panel to discuss how to build the perfect character.

Maggie Fields, one of the conference organizers, had pulled him aside after he had checked in for the conference that morning. She had asked that he not bring too much attention to himself before that evening’s dinner when he was scheduled to be the post-dinner entertainment.

Sully had agreed easily. He would prefer to avoid the spotlight entirely, but knew that was not going to happen. It couldn’t. He was here to promote his books, and to do that he had to be in front of the crowd.

Sully was still standing just inside the door at the back of the room when the panel commentator began speaking. She welcomed the crowd to the conference and began introducing the authors who sat on the small stage at the front of the room. Sully jumped when the door flew open and Dane race-walked into the room.

“I’m here. I’m here. Please don’t start without me,” Dane said as he rushed down the aisle and onto the stage before slipping into the only empty chair. “Sorry I’m late, but I got caught up in a discussion about committing the perfect murder.”

The audience laughed as Sully knew they were supposed to. The man who had captured his heart had a natural, snarky sense of humor, and would, no doubt, be entertaining over the next hour as he discussed the cops, killers, and innocent bystander characters he built so well in his books.

Once the audience settled down once more, the commentator, an older woman wearing an unbecoming lilac tweed suit, picked up once more with her introduction of the panel.

Sully moved to one of the empty seats in the back row and sat down. Shifting the chair to the left a few inches, he had a clear view of Dane. Dane would also see him, if the man bothered to look in his direction. Once the panel was over, he would confront Dane and demand answers for the growing list of questions he had been formulating all day.

In the meantime, he would settle in to learn more about the man and how he created his award-winning characters.

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