The Sharpest Edge by Stephanie Rowe

Author:Stephanie Rowe [Stephanie Rowe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-01-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sean was too angry to talk on the ride home, and Kim didn’t try to engage him. He kept waiting for her to demand more information about the knife or Jimmy, or to declare her independence and insist that she sleep at her house, but she said nothing. She simply sat with her feet up on the dashboard, her arms wrapped around her legs and her knees pulled up to her chest.

How close had it been tonight? Would it have been another warning or the end?

“You think Officer McKeen is dirty?” She was resting her chin on her knees, staring out the windshield.

“Why do you ask? Did he do something?” Sean was instantly alert.

“He didn’t stop me from going to my house.” Her voice was far calmer than he’d expected. “Alan thinks that cops might be willing to help out Jimmy, cop to cop.” She didn’t look at him. “He tried to convince me you might be dirty.”

“I assume he wanted you to ditch me and let him protect you?”

She nodded.

“The best way to get to you is to get you away from me.”

Kim slowly turned to look at him and he was chagrined by the emptiness in her gaze. The resignation that horror actually existed and she had to face it. “It’s not Alan.”

“When did you first meet him?”

“I met him at a party.”

“Before or after Cheryl started dating Jimmy?”

Kim’s eyes narrowed. “After.”

“He approach you or you approach him?”

“We were seated next to each other at a dinner party.”

A dinner party. Hah. When was the last time he’d been to a dinner party?

Kim frowned. “What’s so funny?”

“Nothing.” He swung into his driveway, certain they hadn’t been tailed from the camp office. And he’d been looking. Nevertheless, he pulled out his gun and scanned the woods for a few minutes.

An unknown enemy was the toughest.

“Let’s go in.”

He let her into the cabin and set the alarm behind them. Last night, it seemed cozy. Tonight, it was claustrophobic. Too much tension between them. “I’ll take the couch.”

Kim didn’t argue. Instead, she sank onto the sofa and hugged a pillow to her chest. It was then that he noticed that she was shivering. “Cold?”

She shook her head.

“Scared?”

“Mad.”

He couldn’t stop himself from smiling. “At me?” He pulled out a glass and stuck it under the faucet. “Want a drink?”

“No to both.” She stared blankly at the empty fireplace. “I’m mad at all of this. At Jimmy for starting it. At whoever’s playing the game now. Is it a friend of Jimmy’s? Is it Helen posing as a cohort of Jimmy’s to throw us off the trail? She could have gotten the details of the attack from Cheryl….” Kim frowned. “Of course she could have.”

The glass overflowed, and he shut off the faucet. He couldn’t believe what he’d just heard. “What did you say?”

“Helen.” Kim was sitting up, her eyes bright. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. I know Cheryl told my dad about the attack. Helen would totally know what kind of a knife was used.

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