Kiss by Ted Dekker & Erin Healy

Author:Ted Dekker & Erin Healy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9781595548191
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2009-01-14T22:00:00+00:00

21

For the rest of that day and into the next, Wayne seemed intent on both avoiding Shauna’s touch and not leaving her side, breaking this code only once, when he gave her an overstated peck on the back of her hand before they parted ways for the night in the living room of the guesthouse.

She awoke in the night to sounds of him moving about in the living room. Keeping watch to make sure she didn’t run off again? Planning to come in, smother her while she slept?

Shauna did not go back to sleep.

How could she get out from under his murderous eye?

He had not wanted her to remember that he had tried to kill her. He had insinuated himself into her life as her lover in order to hold the memory at bay.

If she hadn’t developed this bizarre ability of hers, Shauna had no doubt it would have worked. She would be planning now to leave this miserable home behind and make a new one in Houston with her worst enemy.

Would he kill her there? Stage another tragedy? Another accident?

Had her accident been staged? If it had, she wasn’t responsible for Rudy’s condition. Someone else was. Wayne Spade. If she could prove it, she could have peace of mind and Rudy could have justice, if not his old life.

Assuming Wayne hadn’t simply made an opportunity out of an unfortunate event.

Why had Wayne wanted her dead in the first place?

Maybe Corbin had known the answer to that question.

If that was the case, why didn’t Corbin tell her that day at the Statesman? Why bring her, and his death, to his home? What was more dangerous about telling her then and there?

Okay. So maybe Corbin didn’t know, but his witness did.

That didn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t Wayne kill the witness? Because he didn’t know who the witness was? Did he kill Corbin to warn the witness? To draw the witness out?

A headache took root in the back of Shauna’s head and snaked around over her ears.

Maybe there was no witness. Just a straw man Corbin created to protect himself, though that had done little good. If, however, he knew of a witness who might divulge what he—she?—had seen, why withhold this information until Shauna snapped out of her coma? Why not go right to the police on day one? What would be the point of telling her and not the law?

Simply to keep her out of Wayne’s reach?

That didn’t make sense either. Corbin could have said so without all the dramatic mumbo jumbo.

If Miguel Lopez were the witness who wanted to keep her alive, he would have said, “Wayne Spade wants to kill you.” Not, “Wayne Spade is not your friend.”

Not your friend. Understatement of the eon.

At this point Shauna believed she understood more about this situation than Miguel and Corbin ever did. When the first beam of light rose off the floor of her room, she had more questions and only a few certainties:

She was not safe with Wayne.

She was probably not safe anywhere until she knew why Wayne had wanted her dead.

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