Chapter 15
She bolted up like a frightened rabbit when she saw that watch, her face somewhere between sheer panic, rage and terror, her eyes fixed directly on it. Her chair clattered noisily on the floor behind her. She reached out as if to take the watch from my hands, but I slipped it back into my pocket and her fingers clenched on empty air.
“Gavin, I....” she said. She didn't know what to say. It was obvious she hadn't been prepared for me to just show her the watch. That wasn't part of whatever game she was playing.
“Should we take this conversation in another direction?” I asked her quietly. “Like maybe in the direction of the truth?”
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but right then the two guys I'd been suspicious of picked that moment to make their move. The gutter s
