The Switch by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, Twins, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Thrillers, Suspense, Sisters, Revenge, Mystery Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780446609944
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

"Personal shopper?" Chief remarked drolly as she ended the call on her cell phone.

"What's wrong with it?"

"Nothing. Actually, Melina, I'm impressed." She shot him a dirty look, and he feigned being afraid. "You're not going to hit me in the head with a vase, are you?"

Ignoring that, she stood. The space between the two double beds was so narrow, he had to angle his knees aside in order to make room for her to pass. "Today I'm glad I have her to do my shopping. I told her what I needed. She'll gather up the merchandise and send it here in a taxi."

"These aren't your usual digs. She didn't ask for an explanation?"

"She probably thinks I'm having an affair. Among her clients are the rich and famous. She wouldn't have them for long if she fished for information and told secrets. Discretion is key."

"The same as with your job. Gillian explained to me that you don't divulge one client's secrets to another."

"Bad for business."

"You still haven't explained the necessity for haute couture."

"Anyone looking for us will watch for credit card purchases, but maybe they won't think of Neiman's. This is the best way I could think of to get a few changes of clothes. You told me to grab my keys. I grabbed my keys. God knows when I'll be able to go home, and this is a little conspicuous," she said of her Tweety Bird shirt.

She looked around at the dreary, impersonal room. After stopping at an ATM and getting enough cash to last for several days, they'd checked into an interstate highway chain motel that had a parking lot full of eighteen-wheelers. The room was standard issue.

Her dejected gaze eventually came back to him. "Chief, listen. This may be home for me for a while, but that doesn't mean it has to be for you."

"How's the collarbone?" he asked, making her aware that she was massaging it.

She dropped her hand. "It's fine. I shouldn't have let on that I knew you had slept with Gillian. If I hadn't called you a liar and a coward, you would have walked away from that meeting with Lawson free and clear."

"Do you think it's broken?"

"My collarbone? No."

"Cracked?"

"No," she said with an impatient shake of her head. "It'll probably bruise, but that'll be the worst of it." Wringing her hands, she said, "I hate myself for dragging you into this mess."

He sighed with resignation. "You insist on talking about it, don't you? Okay, let's talk about it. You didn't drag me in, Melina. I was in it from the start. Unwittingly, maybe, but I was in it. Gillian was killed because of the time she spent with me. Now it seems that I'm next. On both counts, I want to know why."

"NASA would protect you. Whoever attacked you last night wouldn't be so brave if NASA was looming behind you." She appealed to him to call the FBI.

"And tell them what?"

"That you thought I was being attacked by thieves this morning."

"Thieves!" he exclaimed on a short laugh.

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