Which was why I drove straight home, totally forgetting that I had skipped out on the bar’s busiest night of the week. I didn’t realize my mistake until I was already in bed. I was surprised Paul hadn’t called, but he must have guessed the case had me tied up. If I kept this up, I really would ha...
I needed to see what I was doing.It took me three tries before I got the tie right.An hour later, I arrived at the Rabson, confident no one had followed me. When I knocked on the door to the business suite on the twelfth floor, Lincoln answered.He had the sleeves of his dress shirt rolled up, and...
He might as well never have left the War Room, because he continued hashing things out in his sleep—if you could call it sleep. Since he had entered REM, technically he had slept. But when his alarm on his watch woke him at five the next morning, he didn’t feel the least bit rested.He woke disori...
He sat on the floor in front of the television watching a late night talk show host do his opening monologue.God, how long had she perched on this ledge?Her bent legs ached a little. When she took her hands off the glass, she left greasy palm prints behind. The air smelled like rain, but none had...
She wore neon pink knee-high socks with matching shoelaces in her sneakers. She wore a pair of black shorts with white stripes down the side. Her tight tank top that accentuated her narrow waist and small chest matched the socks as well. All that bright neon, yet she still managed to come out of ...
Felt like a week, but was probably closer to twenty-four hours. In that time, no one had brought her food. The only water she had came from the nasty sink and tasted like gravel. Without anything more to do, she napped fitfully, her growling stomach and the cot’s hard frame keeping her from reach...