Silencing Eve

none of the media coverage of Doane’s death. Not true. The first thing I did when I arrived at the apartment was to check her TIVO, and she had set that memorial service to record. She knew exactly what had happened to Doane and Eve. She probably knew who you and Joe were, too. That set up red flags that we should go over everything in the apartment very carefully.” He took a bite of the sandwich the waitress had placed before him. “I ran a disk on her computer for current entries to see if anything interesting showed up. That will take some time to scan.”
    “You were gone a long time. You just searched her apartment?”
    “Just? We did a magnificent job of searching her apartment and putting everything back exactly the way we found it.” He shrugged. “But when we found out that our Harriet was not what Venable thought she was, I took time to run out to the nearest mall and bought a few bugs to keep track of what she was up to.” He gazed at her inquiringly. “Okay?”
    “More than okay. You both did everything right. I’m the one who screwed up,” Jane said bitterly. “If she lied about Kevin, she could have lied about Doane. Which means that she might know where he is now.”
    “You didn’t let her know that Doane and Eve might still be alive?” Trevor asked.
    “Of course not. I admit I felt a little sorry for her. She was faced with a terrible decision, and, in my opinion, she made the wrong one. But there’s no way I’d trust her enough to confide in her.” She added harshly, “Though it appeared that Kevin had no such problem.” Her hands clenched into fists. “She works with children every day of her life. How could she stand to hear what he did to them?”
    “Just because she works with them doesn’t mean she holds them in particular affection,” Margaret said. “I’ve heard that some people can only care about one or two people in their entire lifetime. Maybe her one love was her child, Kevin.”
    “Well, she married Doane, and they had a child. Evidently, they both loved Kevin above anything else in the world. If they shared that passion, then Doane must mean something to her. She has to know something about him.” She was trying to control her rage. “Let me out of this booth, Caleb.”
    “I was waiting for that.” Caleb got to his feet and helped her out of the booth. “But, at least, I got my sandwich down.” He smiled down at her. “You’re going to go see Harriet Weber again?”
    “You bet I am.” She looked at her watch. “It’s past time for school to be over. I’ll go to her apartment and talk to her.”
    “I’ll go with you.” Margaret started to slide out of the booth.
    “No. I’m going by myself.” She grabbed her bag. “This is between the two of us. She played me.”
    “Let me go with you,” Trevor said quietly. “Anyone who would welcome letters that were that sick could be off-kilter herself. She could not only be a liar, but something much more dangerous.”
    “Are you trying to protect me again? I can take care of myself, Trevor. Have you forgotten that I grew up on the streets until I was ten and that after Eve and Joe took me in, he taught me martial arts?”
    “I haven’t forgotten. You’re tough. I just think that you lack the killer instinct. I don’t know if Harriet Weber does or not. Let me go with you.”
    “Hell, no. I don’t want to be protected from that barracuda. If I don’t have the killer instinct, what I’m feeling is pretty damn close. I feel like an idiot. She had me feeling sorry for the poor mother who was forced to give up her child. I thought she was in agony. I was even fighting to understand how she could walk away without finding a way to safeguard those children who were threatened by Kevin.” She could feel the fury surge through her. “Understand? I could never understand her. She didn’t care about those victims. She was only worried that Kevin might get in trouble by killing them.” She started across the terminal toward the exit. “Well, she’s not going to play me again. I’ll find out why she lied and cram it down her throat. If she knows anything about Doane, she’s going to tell me.”
    Starlite Motel
Casper, Wyoming
    “WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO FIND?” Zander asked as he threw open the door of the room Eve and Doane had formerly occupied. “We already know it was Eve who was here with Doane.”
    “Eve is smart.” Catherine went into the room. “If you’d spent more time with