The Girl and the Silent Night (Emma Griffin™ FBI Mystery Book 17) by A.J. Rivers

Author:A.J. Rivers [Rivers, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Emma Griffin FBI Mysteries, Book 17
Publisher: A.J. Rivers
Published: 2021-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

The image of her on that ledge stays with me even as she walks me back down the stairs toward the parking lot. The rest of our conversation had been unremarkable, and I wonder if she really had just asked me to come because she wanted to spend time with me away from the set and the rest of the cast and crew, or if there was something else she planned on saying, but couldn’t bring herself to once I was there.

As we get to the door leading out into the parking lot, I half expect Marlowe to stop and say goodbye to me still within the walls of the courtyard. I realize how strange that thought is when she follows me out. There shouldn’t be a reason for her to cloister herself. I understood her compulsion to have security, but she shouldn’t have to hide away from everything, especially so close to her own home.

“Do you have any plans for the weekend off?” she asks as we walk toward my car.

“Well, it’s not off for me,” I tell her. “I have cases I’m investigating, so I’ll be working on those. Dean is also working on a couple of cases that have been really complicated, so I might help him with those as well. I want to spend as much time with Sam as I can before he leaves town again, too.”

“Sounds busy,” she comments.

“That tends to be my life,” I tell her. “What about you? What are you doing?”

“I guess I don’t really have it off, either. I’ll be studying the script and doing some extra rehearsing for the scenes coming up next week. It feels a little odd to still be preparing for scenes when my character is now dead, but that’s how it goes,” she shrugs. “I also have to meet with Frederic about some contract negotiations, and Brittany and I are getting some extra content done so it can be scheduled for the last push of the shooting schedule and the few days I want to take off over the holidays and my birthday.”

“Sounds like you’re busy, too,” I say.

“I try to keep it that way. It makes it easier,” she says.

I’m about to ask her what she means when her eyes move to the side of the parking lot like she hears something I didn’t. I follow them and see a man coming down the pathway that leads around the side of the building. He’s concentrating on his phone in his hand but looks up when he gets to the parking lot. There’s a car parked in the shadows that I didn’t notice when we first came back out and that I’m sure wasn’t there when we got here, but he doesn’t walk toward it. Instead, he strolls toward Marlowe.

His casual gait and focused look in his eye aren’t matched by Marlowe’s reaction to him. She doesn’t smile or greet him. She doesn’t move toward him. There’s no emotion as she seems to wait passively beside me, like there’s nothing she can do about his inevitable approach.

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