Forgotten in Death(121)
“Ice those bruises,” Mira told her.
“I appreciate you coming in for this. I know it all ran late.”
“I wouldn’t have missed it. Breathed will most certainly try to convince her to submit to a psychiatric evaluation, but she’ll dismiss that. Nothing wrong with her. I’m going to rewatch those recordings, both of them, the first chance I have. Fascinating. I may do a paper on them. But for now, I’m going home. Dennis probably waited up, and, if so, we’re going to have some midnight ice cream and talk this through.”
“Midnight ice cream?”
“A family tradition. It’s been a pleasure, in our way, to work with all of you on this. Get some rest.”
“I’ll wait this out,” Reo said as Mira walked away. “No need for you to stay.”
“I need to write it up.”
“Write it up in the morning, which it already is. This was good work,” Reo added. “Better than good work, but I’m getting a little punchy, and that’s the best I can do.”
“Don’t let him string you out too long.”
“Oh, believe me, Dallas, he knows she’s cooked. See you next time.”
“I’m just going to write up the broad strokes,” Eve told Peabody as they headed back. “We can fill it in in the morning. Take an hour personal time there. Sleep in a little.”
“Whole bed to myself.”
“Right. We’ll give you a lift home.”
“I wouldn’t mind it.”
“Give me ten minutes.”
Broad strokes, she told herself as she sat at her desk. And God, even she’d had enough coffee. She got water and laid down those broad strokes.
“Haven’t you had enough for tonight?” Roarke walked in.
“Yeah, I have. I’m going to finish in the morning. I figured you were still playing with the commander, so I’d get started.”
“He said to tell you very fine work, and he’d like to see you in his office tomorrow. Late morning. He was talking to Anna when he left. I believe she’s very pleased.”
“Well, that was the whole goal, pleasing the commander’s wife.”
She rose, looked at him, then moved into him.
“There now, my darling Eve.”
She held on, and tight. “There are horrible people in the world. Ugly people, vicious people, but there aren’t, under all that, so many genuinely evil people. Elinor Singer is one of them.”
“She is, yes. She tried to take you from me. My heart stopped, just an instant. Even as I was moving, there was no breath in me.”
“She tried, she failed. You gave me magic. You’re not an Irish thug, but even if you were, I’d love you anyway.”
Such was her fatigue she didn’t hear Peabody clomping to her office until she heard her partner’s: “Awww!”
“Shut up, Peabody.”
But she kept holding on.
Titles by J. D. Robb
Naked in Death
Glory in Death
Immortal in Death
Rapture in Death
Ceremony in Death
Vengeance in Death
Holiday in Death
Conspiracy in Death Loyalty in Death
Witness in Death
Judgment in Death
Betrayal in Death
Seduction in Death
Reunion in Death
Purity in Death
Portrait in Death
Imitation in Death
Divided in Death
Visions in Death
Survivor in Death
Origin in Death
Memory in Death
Born in Death
Innocent in Death
Creation in Death
Strangers in Death
Salvation in Death
Promises in Death
Kindred in Death
Fantasy in Death
Indulgence in Death Treachery in Death
New York to Dallas
Celebrity in Death
Delusion in Death
Calculated in Death Thankless in Death
Concealed in Death
Festive in Death
Obsession in Death
Devoted in Death
Brotherhood in Death Apprentice in Death Echoes in Death
Secrets in Death
Dark in Death
Leverage in Death
Connections in Death
Vendetta in Death
Golden in Death
Shadows in Death
Faithless in Death
Forgotten in Death
Anthologies Silent Night
(with Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, and Claire Cross) Out of This World
(with Laurell K. Hamilton, Susan Krinard, and Maggie Shayne) Remember When
(with Nora Roberts)
Bump in the Night
(with Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) Dead of Night
(with Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) Three in Death
Suite 606
(with Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) In Death
The Lost
(with Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) The Other Side
(with Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) Time of Death
The Unquiet
(with Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas) Mirror, Mirror
(with Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas, and R. C. Ryan) Down the Rabbit Hole (with Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Mary Kay McComas, and R. C. Ryan)