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Deep Waters

Deep Waters

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with Elias before he nodded again. "Yeah, that figures. Old Hayden Stone was a bit peculiar, too."
    Charity did not like Hank's speculative expression. "Now what are you implying, Chief?"
    "Nothing. Just making another observation." Hank lifted a hand and got into the car.
    Jeff Collings started the engine and drove off toward town. The lights of the car glowed in the fog. They vanished as the vehicle turned a corner in the distance.
    "It's cold out here." Elias took Charity's arm. "Let's get back inside the house."
    "I didn't like the way Hank implied that you might have had something to do with the trouble around here. It's just a coincidence that you were here when Gwendolyn Pitt was killed,"
    Elias smiled faintly. "It's Tybern's job to pay attention to coincidences. And you've got to admit that if I hadn't been around, there wouldn't have been the kind of trouble we had here tonight."
    "You can hardly be blamed if Rick Swinton tried to take revenge against you."
    "When one throws a pebble into a pond, the ripples travel outward for a great distance."
    Charity groaned as she stalked up the steps to the kitchen door. "I warn you, Elias, I am in no mood for one of your lectures on the nature of water. We've got other problems on our hands."
    "Such as?"
    "Hank is reasonably discreet, but I can't say the same for Jeff. Rumors and gossip spread fast."
    "True." He met her eyes as he opened the door. "I think it's safe to say that there's going to be a lot of talk about both of us tomorrow. Does that worry you?"
    "Of course it worries me." She stormed through the door and into the kitchen. "Do you think I want people saying that you're connected to the murder of a cult leader and other assorted acts of violence? You're new in town, Elias. It's always easier to blame outsiders when there's trouble in a small place like this."
    He seemed taken back by her words. "That's not the kind of talk I meant."
    "Well?" She planted her hands on her hips and swung around to confront him. "What the heck did you mean?"
    Elias closed the door slowly and leaned back against it. He folded his arms across his chest and regarded her with one of his patented enigmatic stares. "I meant that there will be talk about the fact that I was not alone here tonight when those two men broke in. It must have been clear to Collings and Tybern that you were spending the night with me."
    Charity opened her mouth, closed it, and felt the heat rush into her face. "Oh, that."
    "Yes, that."
    "That won't be news to anyone," she said gruffly. "I told you that Phyllis Dartmoor had already guessed that we were seeing each other, uh, socially."
    "It's one thing for people to suspect that we're dating on a casual basis. It's something else for the local constabulary to find you in my house at two in the morning."
    His serious tone of voice was beginning to worry her. "What's the difference?"
    "The first is cause for comment and curiosity in any small town. The second confirms the fact that we're having an affair."
    "Does that bother you?"
    "No. Does it bother you?"
    She had a sudden, inexplicable urge to laugh. "Elias, are you worried about my reputation?"
    "Maybe what I really want to know is your opinion on the matter. Do you think we're dating casually or are we having an affair?"
    "Is this a trick question?"
    Crazy Otis cackled.
    "I don't know." Elias unfolded his arms and started toward Charity. "What's the answer?"
    "Can I circle both A and B?"
    He wrapped his powerful hands around her forearms. "Damn it, Charity, tell me if what we have is important to you or not."
    "I'm amazed that you even have to ask." She put her hands up to frame his hard face. "Elias, you make me a little crazy at times, and I worry about you and that Tal Kek Chara stuff, but I promise you that our relationship is very important to me."
    He pulled her tightly to him. "That's okay, then."
    She waited, crushed against his chest, for him to say that what they had together was equally important to him.
    "When I touch you, the water between us is so clear, it's as if it weren't even there," he muttered into her hair.
    Charity stifled a small sigh and wrapped her arms around his neck. With Elias, a philosophical remark on the nature of water was probably equivalent to a declaration of undying passion from another man.
    Probably.
    She hoped that was true because something warned her that it might be all that she was going to get from him.
    A whisper of panic flickered somewhere deep inside her

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