Kiss by Ted Dekker; Erin Healy

Author:Ted Dekker; Erin Healy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian, General, Christian Fiction, Recovered Memory, Patients, Suspense, Coma - Patients, Coma, Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 9781595544704
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Landon, I have evidence that he tried to kill me." She pointed at Rudy. "Wayne did this. Uncle Trent did this. Not me."

"I don't believe you."

He was closed to her touch. She wasn't getting anything.

"Rudy wasn't supposed to be in the car."

"Wilde would have stopped it."

"But Wayne had put the machine in motion. Dad. Can't you see what's going on?"

Landon exploded with just enough self-control to protect his son. His voice and emotions were restrained, but his face was bright red in the dim room. He set his drink on the counter and leaned in close to Shauna.

11 If Wilde and Spade were involved in anything so illegal, and {/they thought you were going to expose them, they would have found a dozen other ways to keep you quiet. They would have sought my advice. They live and breathe on my 238 TED D E F C K E R & ERIN HEALY

authority. And if I knew about it, and if I was such a devil that I needed to cover it up, I would have taken out that loco Lopez, not my own children."

"Wayne tried to kill him too."

Landon closed his eyes, exasperated.

"Miguel Lopez was in the car with me."

"You were at the party together? What do you think that says about your motivation, Shauna? And why wasn't he on scene? Why isn't he in the accident reports? Are you the only one who saw him? I suppose Wayne planted drugs in your car too?"

Shauna looked at Rudy, unable to bring the conversation around.

"And who else has our dear Wayne Spade tried to take out?"

She knew better than to bring up Corbin Smith at this point.

"People don't murder over money laundering, girl. They don't kill over a plain vanilla, white-collar crime."

"No, they don't. They kill to gain the presidency, Landon. Listen to me.

There is something so much bigger than we realize going on here. I don't know what it is yet, but I promise you--if it's big enough to kill for, it's big enough to destroy everything you've ever worked for."

She cupped his face in her hands as if he were the child. "Dad. I'm only here because I couldn't bear to see that happen."

As she spoke the words, she was not at all surprised to understand that they were true. She sensed the gap between them close by a hairline, as if he was dropping his defenses against her. Would he give her access to his own mind?

Was that what she wanted?

She wanted to be close to her father. She didn't want to steal from him.

She was close enough to see the horizon of his mind, crowded with a cityscape of memories. She saw the street forged by Landon's fraternity with Trent. It cut through the peaks and valleys that she recognized as McAllister MediVista's booming growth. She saw in the background, barely perceptible, the smaller world of his childhood. In the foreground were buildings crowded with people: colleagues he trusted, political opponents he had grown to hate.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.