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"Hello?"

"I need you," he said

"I know I’ve felt it coht for you"

"I should have known I suspected I--failed," Brent said flatly

"There is no blame Unless I were to take it myself"

"One is dead That I know of--for certain--so far I’ll be on the prowl"

"We have tickets already You’ll get us at Orly?"

"No, I’ve been to the police I’ll explain when you arrive"

"We already have tickets on the overnighter"

"To city"

"I’ll do what I can as well"

He hung up, walked outside, andfollowed

He stood very still, feeling the breeze, listening

There was nothing Nothing on the air Nothing in the wind

Not even a sense of direction

Still, he had to move

Five disappearances Five that were official Paris was a transient city People co all the tiirl in the toin to suspect

He considered taking his car, then decided against it

For a moment, he closed his eyes, and saw her as she had stood in the toent, suspicious, and deternified even in fear He had barely seen her, barely spoken with her

And yet

A sudden urge to protect and defend her gave him new direction It was, of course, because he was pretty certain of just who she was

And because he was fairly certain that the disappearances had plenty to do with the ood reason to worry about her

The night was long He need only see that those in the greatest danger were secure And then the hours of darkness would stretch on

And there were, of course, those things which must wait until dawn

Determined on his course, he started out of the center of the village, seeking the darkness of the roads in the ion beyond He walked and looked up at the sky Not a full h in the heavens

He e, and those now stopping to gawk at the police activity at the dig site

More and irl had been there There was so much she didn’t know, and still

She would

He knew the address of where she was staying

He knehere she lived

They did not; not yet And still, that sense of danger rean to run

In seconds, he ed up in the darkness

Tara jerked the car to a halt in front of the chateau and went flying in, noting that Ann had not coh the hall to the library, but her grandfather wasn’t there

She raced up the stairs to his roo The sound of her arrival woke hi at her intently

She had never been disrespectful to her grandfather, and she didn’t really mean to be so at that moment, but words spilled from her lips before she could stop them "What the hell did you send me into?" He stiffened, all attention, rheumy eyes as sharp as tacks

"What happened?"

"A ot to be explicit Exactly what happened, as murdered, and where did it happen?"

His determined calm forced her to breathe a little more slowly, but she could be as stolid as he was, and she le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>