The Partner by Kay David

Author:Kay David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

RISA WASN’T CONVINCED of her father’s argument when she drove away that afternoon. She was equally unsure which had surprised her more—his idea or the fact that they’d actually discussed the situation without one of them getting pissed off and storming away in a huff. He’d hurt her feelings with his gruffness, but she somehow felt better after talking to him, too. It was a weird combination, then again, her life had been nothing but weird since the shooting.

It seemed like a miracle, but the glazier was right on time. As soon as he finished and she’d paid him, Risa changed clothes then grabbed her duffel bag from the closet and left again. Thirty minutes later she parked in front of the private gun range where she practiced. A lot of cops belonged to the club and Risa had been a member for years. The owners were good people. Usually a stickler for doing her own cleaning and maintenance, she’d let the club’s tech adjust her trigger pull last month. He’d done a good job.

Regardless of that, she didn’t really want to run into anyone she knew. But if she did, well, she did. She had nothing to hide, she told herself. She should act innocent because she was innocent.

Looking neither left nor right, she registered at the front desk, got her lane assignment and walked directly to the indoor shooting area.

The club was high tech all the way with twenty-five air-conditioned, soundproofed lanes. The stations were four, maybe five, feet wide and fifty feet long, each one outfitted with a computer that allowed the shooter to select from over twenty different courses. The programs were preset and tactical, challenging for some, but useless as far as Risa was concerned. They felt like video games to her and she wasn’t there to play.

Dropping her duffel to the black rubber mat at her feet, Risa knelt down and pulled out her equipment, including her pistol.

The range had special wall tiles that absorbed the sound as well as bullets, but she always wore ear protection and safety glasses, too. With everything in place, she punched up her program, adjusting the speed and placement to make the task more difficult as she progressed, took her stance and began to fire. An hour later, she was sweating and exhausted, but the tension she’d had in her neck and arms came from physical effort and not from stress and worry.

She flipped on the gun’s safety catch and stepped back from her stand, her eyes briefly meeting the curious gaze of the man in the lane next to her. She knew him, but from where? A second passed then she placed him, a hard knot forming in her chest.

He was the blonde who’d been at Melinda Rowling’s side before she’d attacked Risa.

Laying his weapon on the table before him, the cop pulled off his own ear protectors and said hello, sticking his hand out in a friendly manner. “You’re Risa Taylor,” he said. “Kurt Trundle. We met at—”

“At the Rowling house.

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