The blue zone by Andrew Gross

Author:Andrew Gross [Gross, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Suspense fiction, Witnesses, Witnesses - Protection
ISBN: 9780061143410
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2008-01-10T18:04:33.578000+00:00

The doctor gave her some Valium, and Kate slept for a couple of hours back at the apartment. Before he left, Greg knelt by the bed and stroked her hair.

“There’s an agent at the door, and the police are outside. Even better, Fergie’s on guard.”

“Good.” Kate smiled sleepily and squeezed his hand.

“You’ve got to be careful, Kate. I love you. I can’t even think about what might have happened. I’ll be back early. I promise.”

Nodding, her lids weighted, Kate closed her eyes.

She awoke in the middle of the afternoon. She still felt a little woozy and shaken, but otherwise she was fine. There was a bandage wrapped around her left arm. She glanced outside the window and spotted an FBI man and a couple of police uniforms on the street below. There was also a guard stationed on her floor, outside the apartment.

It wouldn’t be easy to go about this, Kate realized. She couldn’t e-mail them. She couldn’t call. The agents weren’t about to let her out of their sight now.

Where the hell did she even begin?

In the bottom drawer of her desk was the accordion folder she kept filled with the old e-mails and correspondence she had received from them throughout the past year. Kate had never destroyed them, as she’d been instructed. These messages and cards were all she had. She’d read them over several times.

There had to be something in there. Somewhere…

She put a Bartók string quartet on the external iPod and began leafing through them. Truth was, she’d always had a few ideas. Justin once wrote that they had a dock on their property and they could get around by boat, which he thought was cool. Mom wrote that the winter wasn’t too bad at all—that mostly it just rained a lot. Maybe Northern California, Kate always surmised. Or the Northwest coast. Even if her hunches were right about that, it was still a huge amount of territory.

She didn’t even know their new name.

Page by page, she pieced through the stack of correspondence. At first it was pretty much just “miss you” notes and a lot of complaints. Things weren’t the same where they were. Nothing was like before. Justin was finding it hard to meet new friends. Em was mostly miffed about Dad and new squash coaches who weren’t as good.

Mom just seemed depressed. “You don’t know how much we all miss you, darling.”

Then, over the year, the messages got a little brighter. As Agent Seymour had promised, they started adjusting. Mom was in a garden club. Justin found this guy who had a music studio in his basement, and they started recording stuff. Em met a few boys. She had aced her new SATs. Kate came across the note Em had written about the first concert that Mom had let her go to alone.

“3EB,” Em signed.

No translation needed. Third Eye Blind.

Her sister had sent it back in June, practically giddy with elation. “It was sooo ridiculous, K! So much fun!!! Stephan Jenkins was awesome!!!” They stayed until after midnight.

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