The Fall of Lucas Kendrick by Kay Hooper

Author:Kay Hooper [Kay Hooper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345531315
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-10-24T13:00:00+00:00

FIVE

OVERHEARING THIS CONVERSATION from three feet away on the other side of the hedge, Raven enjoyed it so much that she retraced her own steps back to the center and told Kyle about it. And Kyle, feeling more lighthearted than she had in years, went back with the other woman to eavesdrop shamelessly on the men. Both women enlarged their respective vocabularies of colorful curses, even Raven widening her eyes at some of her husband’s phrases.

“And you think you know a man after living with him for a while,” she murmured.

Soft as her voice was, it caught her husband’s attention.

“It’s Raven. She’s over there.”

“The whole world’s over there,” Lucas said irritably. And, a moment later, “There isn’t any way to get over there. Kyle? Are you with Raven?”

“Of course I am, Luc,” she called back.

“At the center?”

Raven laughed. “Sorry, guys, you aren’t even halfway there. We got bored and came to find you.”

“Well, find us!” her husband commanded.

Raven murmured something to Kyle, who nodded and vanished back into the greenery. Then Raven walked four steps right, turned left, and walked two more steps. She smiled. “Hello.”

“You enjoyed that,” Josh accused.

“Immensely. Luc, if you want Kyle, I can tell you how to find her. You do want her, don’t you?”

Lucas stared into limpid violet eyes. “Yes, Raven,” he said with strained patience. “I want Kyle. Where is she?”

“In the center.” Raven gave him precise directions, then watched him turn a corner and disappear.

“If you weren’t my dear and only love,” Josh told her thoughtfully, “it’s quite likely I would strangle you.”

With a sultry look perfected back when such things had been needed in her various roles, Raven murmured, “Wouldn’t you rather chase me naked through the bushes?”

“Only if you run slowly and leave a trail of clothing for me to follow.”

“You didn’t need a trail in the Catskills.”

“Was that you I was chasing? I could have sworn that was my blond harem.”

“You can run, darling,” Raven advised. “But you can’t hide.”

He couldn’t run very far, either. The path he chose was, of course, a dead end. Not that either of them minded.

“What are they doing?”

On a wooded hill within the huge estate, Kelsey peered through his binoculars, then replied to the question cheerfully. “Playing in the maze.” Even as he spoke, he hooked a finger under the earpiece of his headset and pulled it away from his ear. He waited until the sputterings had subsided, then replaced the earpiece and spoke again into the microphone. “Give them time, boss, they just got here a few hours ago.”

“They haven’t even begun to search?” Hagen’s voice demanded.

“I have no idea. The directional mike just picked up a hodgepodge of voices while they were in the house. They might have looked before they came outside.” Kelsey put his binoculars aside and sat back to contemplate the distant mansion. “Besides, it’s a big house, and right now it’s full of people settling in for the weekend.”

“A perfect time to search.”

“Luc won’t forget what he’s here for, boss.

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