There were few cars around. Not too many shoppers at close to midnight on a Friday night.
Greg parked across from the entrance and stopped.
“Thank you. I won’t be long.”
“Doesn’t matter. I’m coming with you.”
“Oh, that isn’t—”
“Yes, it is. We’re going to be joined at the hip until this thing is put to rest.”
“You think it has something to do with the murder,” she stated, suddenly feeling exhausted.
“That’s one of the theories I’m working on. We hope to find some prints in that mess. If not, we’ll continue to follow other leads. I don’t want to take any chances where you’re concerned. The men you saw could very well believe that you saw them and reported it.”
“So they’ve been watching me?”
He nodded. “Has anything unusual happened to you this week? Besides your apartment being destroyed, I mean.”
“Well, I don’t know how unusual it is, but I’ve gotten several hang-up calls. Probably wrong numbers.”
“Or checking if you’re home.”
She stared at him in surprise. “I suppose.”
“My guess is that they’re trying to scare you.”
“They have definitely done that.”
He groaned. “And I’ve made it worse by showing an interest in you. They think you’re giving me additional information.”
“That’s a logical assumption.”
“But we both know that isn’t the reason I asked you out.”
She bit her bottom lip. She refused to cry in front of him, but it was tough because he was being nice to her. It had been easier to hide her emotions when he was in his cop mode.
“Let’s go shopping,” he said, opening his door. She got out and met him in front of his car.
“From now on, you wait until I open your door.”
“I’ve been opening my own doors for years. I’m sure I can handle it.”
“So if a car happened to pull up beside you as you were getting out of the car, and a couple of men grabbed you and threw you into the back of their car…or van…you could cope with that?”
“Are you trying to scare me?”
“If it makes you a little less independent for a while.”
“I’ve never been the damsel-in-distress type.”
He took her elbow and guided her across toward the front of the store. “We’ll have to do something about that.”
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