'He wouldn’t talk about it.”
“So much for sharing information.'
'We’ll get it out of him. Right now he thinks he’s doing us a favor. We just have to convince him that we stand on equal ground.'
The phone rang.
She tensed.
Joe looked at her. 'Shall I get it?'
It wouldn’t be Dom. Dom always called on her digital phone. 'No, I’ll answer it.' She picked up the receiver.
'Good to hear your voice, Eve,' Mark Grunard said. 'Though I wish I’d heard it earlier. You promised you’d contact me.'
'There wasn’t any reason. I didn’t know anything. How did you find out where I was?'
'Joe and I made a deal, and he keeps his word. Is he there?”
“Yes.' She handed the phone to Joe. 'Mark Grunard.'
She sat and watched his face as he talked to Mark. No expression. The wariness and stillness were firmly back in place.
'He’s coming.' Joe hung up. 'He wants to be on the spot in case anything interesting happens.'
'He said you made a deal.'
'It was the only way I could get him to tell me where you’d gone. I called him after I found out about this house.'
'Without asking me?'
'Did you ask me before you flew the coop?' He added softly, 'I’d have made a deal with the devil himself to find you, Eve. Shall I tell you what I’d do to keep you?' The words came out of left field, surprising her, shaking her. 'I don’t want to—”
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'Where are you going?'
'Back to the burial site. I don’t like the idea of leaving it unattended.' Her eyes widened. 'You think he’ll come back to it?'
“If he’s watching you, then he knows we found the grave.”
“He won’t try to move the body. He told me once that it would be stupid.”
“Then I’ll be guarding it for nothing. But it won’t hurt.'
'How long will you be there?'
'Until Spiro meets me there tomorrow morning. Don’t expect me back until—”
“I’ll go with you.'
'Go to bed, you’re not invited.' He opened the door. 'My job, Eve. You and Sarah have done yours.'
'It’s idiotic of you to go there tonight if you think he—' She was talking to air. He was gone.
How dare he upset her and then terrify her by going back to Debby Jordan’s grave? And how could he think that she’d be able to sleep? She’d be up all night, imagining him by himself in that field.
She would sleep. She wouldn’t think of him. Let him risk Dom coming back and finding him. It would serve him right. He’d probably enjoy facing that son of a bitch. He’d karate-chop him as he had Lopez and walk away.
Her heart was pounding hard. Stop it. Don’t think of him. Go to bed and go to sleep.
Joe was sitting several yards away from the grave site, and she could feel his gaze on her as she approached, but she couldn’t see his expression in the darkness. There probably wasn’t any expression. She usually had to watch for the faintest flicker of an eyelash or the movement of his mouth to know what he was feeling. Though he’d made his feelings more than clear lately.
'I was expecting you.' Joe patted the ground beside him. 'Sit down.”
“Well, I didn’t expect to be here.' She sat down and linked her arms around her knees. 'I told you he wasn’t coming.'
'But you couldn’t let me run the risk alone.”
“You’re my friend… sometimes.'
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'All the time. You shouldn’t have come here by yourself.”
“I’m never by myself. One of the security men followed me.”
