Dangerous Games by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

On the flight back to New York on Saturday, Alix explained to Faye that they had to stay at Ben’s, because of the threats she’d been getting. The FBI would assign Faye three shifts a day of agents in New York. She groaned but wasn’t surprised.

“I wanted to sleep in my own bed,” Faye said plaintively, but Alix didn’t want to take any risks. Three death threats were enough to convince her they might not be safe at home, and Ben could protect them at his apartment in Brooklyn. The threats went with the territory of investigating and reporting on crime. And an exposé of the Vice President, and his accepting bribes from the Saudis and possibly from key lobbyists, was serious business, although she couldn’t discuss the story with her daughter. Faye didn’t argue with her about it, she could guess that it was an important story, but she was disappointed to still need security and not be able to go home. The two women had to share the bed in Ben’s guest room and it was cramped. His room was no bigger or he would have let them sleep in his. Alix was grateful they could stay there, even if Faye wasn’t pleased. The FBI agent hadn’t arrived yet so she had to wait to go out. Faye had called several friends when they got to Ben’s, and two of them promised to come out to see her in Brooklyn, they were so happy to know she was all right. By the time she finished her calls, the FBI bodyguard was standing outside Ben’s apartment.

“Thank you for letting us invade your space,” Alix said to Ben, looking embarrassed. “If you want, we can stay at a hotel.”

“I love having you here,” he said, and sounded as though he meant it. He tidied up as best he could, and he and Alix went to buy groceries, while Faye stayed in bed, texted her friends, and watched movies on her laptop, which she’d brought home with her.

Alix felt closer to Ben after what they’d just been through. They hadn’t mentioned his son, Chris, again, but Alix was touched that he had confided in her, and she noticed a framed photograph of a little boy on his bookshelf that she hadn’t paid attention to before, and she felt certain it was him but didn’t ask. She didn’t want to reopen the painful subject. Isabelle had called them earlier from France, to see how they were.

The doctor had told Faye to take it easy for a few days, and after that she could do whatever she wanted, and get the wound checked in a week. Alix was changing the dressings for her, and it was very clean and already healing. But the coverage on TV of the aftermath of the shooting was heartbreaking. They ran photographs of the victims and their families again and again, and the funerals in various cities where they had lived would begin on Tuesday. Alix and Ben were off till Monday, with the blessing of their boss.

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