Watch Me by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: mom 03/21/2014
ISBN: 9780778329046
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2008-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“Let’s go,” Cain said.

Sheridan blinked at him. “What? You’re just going to hang up after that mysterious conversation and say, ‘let’s go’?”

“I can’t leave you here alone. It’s not safe.”

“You could tell me where we’re going.”

He raked a hand through his hair. “My stepbrother’s house.”

“Owen? Why?”

Because Owen had had access to the cabin. He came and went from Cain’s property all the time and could easily have put that rifle in the cellar.

And after Cain’s mother’s funeral, when John was busy rekindling his love life, Owen had spent a great deal of time hunting and fishing with Bailey Watts, the man who’d first owned the rifle that had been used to kill Jason.

But Cain didn’t want to explain all that. He didn’t want to entertain the thoughts that were going through his head. He only wanted to disprove them.

“I need to check on something.”

She frowned. “What?”

Crossing to the bar that separated the kitchen from the living room, he scooped his keys off the tile countertop. “Did you and Owen have much to do with each other in high school?”

She’d stood up when he told her they were leaving. Now she shoved her hands in the pockets of her dress and stepped in front of him as he moved toward the door. “Not much. Why?”

“He didn’t ever follow you, or act as if he wanted to approach you, talk to you, be with you?”

“Not really. He wasn’t interested in girls.”

He was interested enough to watch them in the camper instead of making his presence known, wasn’t he?

“He was too shy,” she added with a dismissive shrug.

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“No, not shy,” Cain said. “Intimidated.” His wife tells a funny story about how Owen haunted her classes for an entire year, hoping to date her, yet never asked her out. She finally invited him to the movies. She had to instigate the marriage proposal when the time came for that, too.

Sheridan took her hands out of her pockets and tucked her hair behind her ears. “Either way, he’s not the violent type.”

Cain tried to remember how his fourteen-year-old brother had acted after that camper incident. But he’d been so overwhelmed by his mother’s death and trying to avoid any contact with his stepfather, he hadn’t paid much attention to what Owen was or wasn’t doing. His stepbrothers had had each other and their father. He hadn’t been concerned about them. “I remember him studying, and reading for fun when he wasn’t studying. That’s all. That’s why I made him go to that party. I thought it was time he got a life.”

“He used to attend the football games,” Sheridan said. “I don’t think he missed one. He was always right there, sitting directly behind us—the cheerleaders, I mean.”

“As if he’d come to see you?” Cain asked. That was the one thing missing from the puzzle. A motive. Why would Owen want to hurt Jason or Sheridan? And would the mild-mannered doctor he knew really be capable of something so horrific, especially at such a young age?

It was almost impossible to believe.

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