Night Moves (60th Anniversary) by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488025365
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2016-10-16T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Lee turned on the hall light as he passed it; it seemed senseless to keep the house in darkness now. He glanced at the doorframe where the first bullet had lodged. No real problem there; a little putty would take care of it. But the front door was going to be another story.

A shaft of anger stabbed him. Pictures! For a lousy set of pictures someone tormented Bryn to near lunacy and shot at him, nearly killing him and ripping the hell out of his home.

He paused. At least now…now he could begin to understand Bryn.

He padded down the stairs and looked at the front door. He could wire it closed for the night, but he’d have to replace both it and the lock in the morning. He frowned then, thinking that the police should really be called. But Bryn seemed to be in a real panic. He couldn’t blame her, not when the child was involved.

Nor could he be angry anymore about last night. She had come to him because she had been desperate.

So why the hell hadn’t she just talked to him, he wondered, pain knifing through him. Did she really dislike and distrust him so thoroughly that she couldn’t trust him, even when she was desperate?

They would, he decided grimly, get to the bottom of things, and as soon as he understood it more fully, he was determined that he would see an end to it all.

He would listen to her. But she was going to have to be made to understand that they had to do things his way. Maybe she would be ready to accept his help at last. She needed help. His help. On many levels, and she was afraid to take it on all of them.

His lips compressed as he wedged a chair beneath the doorknob and walked on into the kitchen. He hit the light switch and illuminated the spotlessly clean room. He filled the percolator with water and measured out four scoops of coffee, then added another. Then he set the pot on a burner and leaned against the counter absently as his thoughts continued to roam.

Why would someone want a bunch of publicity shots badly enough to kidnap a little boy and hold him for ransom?

There had to be something else in those pictures. Something so harmful that…

“Lee?”

He glanced across the kitchen to see Bryn standing nervously in the doorway. His shirt engulfed her, overlapping her black jeans to the knees. It seemed strange, but she looked all the more bewitchingly feminine in a man’s shirt.

A covert glance at his wristwatch told him that exactly five minutes had passed. He would have smiled if the situation had been less tense.

“Sit down.” A wave of his arm indicated the wicker stools that surrounded the kitchen’s butcher-block table. She lowered her lashes and did so. Lee felt his heart pound achingly within his chest. He wanted to rush over to her and hold her. Touch her and soothe her and convince her that it was going to be all right.

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