did I,” David said. “If I’d been aware that Blair might be a target, I never would have wanted her to be involved.”
Molly placed their beverages on the table and Blair drank deeply of the cold bottled water. Now might be the time to mention the threat from this afternoon—the gutted trout in her car. But she was reluctant to take that step. She didn’t want the investigation to be about her vulnerability.
“Are you in danger?” Adam asked.
“I’m not sure.” She turned to David. “You’ve reported on a lot of these cases. How do people know when they’re really and truly in danger?”
“Some don’t,” he said, “until the ax falls.”
“Why not?”
“Lack of imagination,” he said.
That certainly wasn’t her problem. It only took a lowering of his voice for her to leap into a full-blown fantasy of lovemaking. “I don’t suffer from that lack. Much of my work as an M.E. is based on an ability to imagine what might have happened.”
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