A Man Worth Remembering by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Leigh lifted her head from against the window when Gabe drove past the sign that announced the Grand Valley city limits. Finally, they’d reached their destination. They had taken what seemed to be the most roundabout route to get there, with Gabe meandering down one back road after another.

“Do you have any idea where this place is that we’re supposed to meet Frank?” she asked, glancing around the pristine houses and shops that dotted the landscape. It wasn’t a large town, but it seemed spread out.

“The house is on Outrider Street.”

Since he didn’t check a map or even look at the road signs, she figured Gabe had been there before. But then, it was an FBI safe house. She, too, might have visited it when she was still on the Evidence Response Team.

She glanced at the clock on the dash. It was still nearly a half hour until midnight. Not a vast amount of time, but they’d already spent the entire day just killing time.

And trying to ignore each other.

Gabe had been far more successful at it than she had.

Basically, he’d just clammed up. When he did speak to answer one of her chitchat-type questions, he kept his answers to a bare minimum. In the five hours it’d taken them to get from his childhood home to Grand Valley, Gabe had really only passed on a few bits and pieces of new information. Leigh now knew that she was twenty-nine and, other than sugary coffee, she had a fondness for old Bogart movies, chocolate ice cream and reading murder mysteries. Not exactly a storehouse of information.

What he carefully avoided was any discussion about what had gone on the night before in the kitchen. Or any comment about their past relationship.

It was just as well. She had no idea what to say to him about those things either. It was clear that Gabe wasn’t eager to resume a relationship with her, but he’d certainly had trouble resisting anything physical.

But then, so had she.

When Gabe slowed down the car, Leigh followed his gaze to the two-story house on Outrider Street. “That’s it?” It looked like the dozen or so other houses that lined both sides of the street. Nondescript. A cookie-cutter image of the other houses around it. And that was probably why the FBI had chosen it.

Gabe nodded and drove right past it. He parked at the end of the block in front of a small park.

“Do you think Frank’s already in there?” Leigh glanced out the back window. She could easily see the house, but there weren’t any lights on inside.

“Maybe.”

But since he settled against the seat, that obviously meant he didn’t intend to go in early. Maybe because it might scare off Frank, and maybe because he wanted to give Jinx a little more time to arrive.

“So, what’s the plan?” she asked.

Gabe made himself more comfortable, stretching out his arm so that it rested on the back of her seat. It wasn’t necessarily intentional. There wasn’t much room in the two-seater car, and his arms were long.

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