Black Jack Point (30 page)
Authors: Jeff Abbott
Tags: #Fiction, #Action & Adventure, #Thrillers, #Suspense
Now he looked at her. ‘I have to know, Claudia.’
‘You’re up for election in another couple of years. You want the voters knowing your mother might have been involved in a
murder?’
‘Are you going to publicize it? Fast way to get a fresh face to work death investigations with you.’
She gave him a quick sideways smile. ‘I would never breathe a word. But you know politics.’
‘If someone else wants to run inquests and juvenile court and small-claims court that bad, let them splatter me with mud.
But that’s not what you’re worried about, is it?’
‘Promise me,’ she said. ‘You’ll wait to hear from Harry ‘before you do anything.’
‘You’re afraid I’m going to run up to Houston, check out the Bellinis. See if I can find her myself if Harry backs out?’
‘I know you. Let Harry handle this. Be patient. Stay out of it, Whit, please. Promise me.’
‘My family was never much good in the promises department,’ Whit said. ‘But I won’t do anything you wouldn’t approve of, okay,
worrywart?’
Claudia knew it was all she would get, and she silently wished that Harry found no trace of Eve Michaels.
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