The Watched (CSI Reilly Steel #4) by Hill Casey

Author:Hill, Casey [Hill, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Morning came, and with it Holly Young’s memorial service. Reilly had tried to clear her mind (as well as the effects of the couple of late-night margaritas she’d shared with Todd) beforehand with a run, but it hadn’t worked. When her stomach was still in knots after three miles, she’d turned around and headed back. There was no point in pushing herself when it wasn’t accomplishing her goal.

Daniel had been in his shower when she’d returned. Now, as she tried to decide how best to style her still-damp hair, she heard him behind her. ‘You don’t have to come to the memorial, you know.’ He stood in the doorway to the guest room. He was already dressed in his suit, looking uncomfortable.

Judging by the number of times Reilly had seen him in a suit and tie, she was willing to bet it was the event that was making him uncomfortable, not the attire.

Not that she could blame him. Things like this were never easy. If anyone understood that, it was her. She had never really been a big fan of cemeteries, even before half of her immediate family ended up in one.

She’d certainly never understood people who thought it was somehow mysterious and alluring to hang out around gravestones, to be seen to be grieving, as if grieving itself wasn’t enough.

For her, a cemetery meant one thing; she was visiting her mother and sister’s graves. Nothing alluring about that.

‘If you’re going to be there for Alice Young then I’m going to be there for you.’ Reilly tried not to let her own anxiety seep through. She didn’t want to go. Didn’t want to sit in some church while a pastor extolled the virtues of a young woman she didn’t know and tried to make sense of a senseless death. But she meant what she said: someone needed to be there for Daniel.

At the service, she sat between Todd and Daniel, resisting the impulse to reach over and take Daniel’s hand when she saw how tightly he was clenching his jaw. She recognized that expression well, had used it herself – the desperate attempt to hold back tears, to be strong when everything inside wanted to break, was already broken.

A grim determination to find the man responsible filled her afresh.

And she didn’t just want the guy found, Reilly realized as she looked at the grieving mother, she wanted him to pay.

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