day.'
'I can’t do that.' Sarah didn’t look at her. 'I know you have good reason to search, but it’s not my reason. My job is to protect Monty. I didn’t want to do this job, and I’ve given you two days.'
'It’s not enough.'
'I’ve given you all I can. And every hour of the past two days I’ve hoped we wouldn’t find that woman.' She shook her head. 'So maybe it’s just as well I’m out.
Maybe I’m not working as hard as you want me to work.”
“Bullshit. You’d never cheat.'
'Find someone else.'
'You know I can’t afford a delay.'
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'I can’t help you.' She started the Jeep. 'Sorry.'
'If you were sorry, you’d help me. Finding bodies isn’t pleasant, but I’d think you’d—'
'Pleasant?' Her voice was strained. 'My God, you don’t know what you’re talking about.'
'I know catching Dom and protecting Jane are more important than any objections you have to working another day or two.'
'Your opinion. You have a right to it. I know only that I have to protect my world the way you’re protecting yours.' She paused. 'Sorry.'
Eve watched the taillights disappear. She would feel all right soon. She was just tired and discouraged. She’d go back to the house and hit the Internet and see if she could find another Sarah Patrick.
TWELVE
Monty whined.
'Shut up.' Sarah pressed the accelerator. 'You don’t know when you’re better off.'
Sad.
'I can’t help it if she’s sad. I have to take care of us.'
Alone.
'We’re all alone.' Not us.
She reached out and scratched his ears. 'No, not us,' she whispered. He whined again.
'I said no.'
Child.
That thought was tearing at Sarah too. 'It’s not our business. Eve will take care of her.' Sad.
'Go to sleep. I’m tired of you nagging me. We’re through. We got lucky and I’m not risking another day.'
Monty settled down in the seat and laid his head down on his paws. Child…
'Where is she, Mark?' Joe asked.
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“It wasn’t easy. The station was very cagey about giving me your new digital phone number.
You changed it two days ago. Why, Mark?'
'I get a lot of nuisance calls. All media people do.”
“And you took a two-week leave from the station.'
'I was tired. I decided to come down here to Florida to bask in the sun.”
“Or you knew I’d be searching for you.'
'Really, Joe, I’d hardly go to all that trouble to avoid you.”
“I think you would. Where is Eve, Mark?'
'How would I know?'
'She didn’t have the address of the welfare house. It took me fifteen minutes to bully the information out of Eisley. Yet Eve was able to go there and take the kid away. I put two and two together and came up with you, Mark.'
'Do you think Eisley would tell me where it’s located?”
“I think you know where every body in the city is buried.”
“That’s an unfortunate turn of phrase.'
