Star Witness by Lisa Phillips

Author:Lisa Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

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“Aaron—”

His head whipped around, his eyes desolate. What she’d been about to say dissipated and she cleared her throat. She couldn’t ask him what he meant. From the look on his face, it would be a while before she could go there. “At least tell me if you learned anything, looking around at the Schweitzers’.”

He sighed. “Kitchen sink is full. Counters looked crowded with cereal boxes and empty jars of peanut butter, so the neighbor was probably right about the wife being gone. The only other window I could see in was the patio, just a view of the hall. But the shih tzu wanted out pretty badly.”

“They have a puppy?”

“A very unhappy one. Nearly yapped my ear off when it saw me over the fence.”

Mackenzie sighed. “So all we have is a bunch of dirty dishes and a dog?”

“No signs of a struggle that I saw, no broken windows. The wife is most likely fine, at her sister’s with the kids—”

“In the middle of the school semester. Without taking the car.”

“Even so, it’s the most likely conclusion.” He started up the car. “We can follow Schweitzer and see where he goes from here. See if it leads us—”

The fancy car went by them again, this time in the other direction.

“That’s him.”

Aaron pulled out into traffic, a ways back from Schweitzer’s car.

Mackenzie chewed her lip. Somewhere along the way their conversation had taken a turn for the worse. Aaron was no longer deflecting her with lighthearted banter. He had shut down completely into some kind of business-only mode. So why did that make her want to dig deeper and draw him out of his shell?

* * *

Aaron kept a solid distance, but his eyes were on Schweitzer’s taillights. If this was a mission, he would have someone tracking Schweitzer’s phone and giving him the location so he could hang back out of sight. There would be more than one car following the target, and all of this would have been coordinated ahead of time.

As it was, all he had was a sullen Mackenzie and his training, which hadn’t amounted to much when everything that could’ve gone wrong had. She wanted him to open up and tell her about it, but he just didn’t want to see the look on her face when she found out he was a complete failure—that because of him, a friend of his, who was a good man and a good soldier, was now blind.

Aaron sighed. He should probably just quit the army as soon as he could. That would be better than living with the shame of what he’d done to the team. He could start his own business, though that would probably take more money than he had. Doug’s idea of a partnership sounded pretty good, not that Doug would be the secretary. Sabine wouldn’t put up with that either, so they would probably have to hire someone to run the office.

He could maybe see what Mackenzie thought about it. She seemed to have set up a new life pretty well and found something that made her happy.

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