Part 31 (1/2)

settle over Kane, saw the slight nod of reluctant agreement, and was

satisfied.

The intercom buzzed then, announcing that Bishop's cab had arrived, and Kane got up to see his friend to the door. ”Keep in touch,” he said.

”Oh, I will. And you do me a favor, okay?”

I can.”

”Take care of yourself. And take care of Faith.”

”I'll do my best.”

When Bishop had gone, Kane went to the end of the hallway to the

bedrooms and listened. He heard the shower and felt a twinge of relief that Faith had been occupied and had missed his tirade.

He really wasn't ready to face her with his tangle of emotions.

They had already 'abbed at her once or twice.

CHAPTER ELEVEN.

”I came as soon as I heard about the explosion.

Kane, what on earth is going on?” Sydney sounded as shaken as she

looked. They had spoken the day before by phone, after the discovery ofDinah's body had hit the news, but Kane had warned her not to come tohis apartment because of the media camped outside.

This morning, she came despite that.

”The police are still investigating,” he told her.

”Guy Richardson thinks whoever killed Dinah wasn't happy when I put a

bounty on his head, and tossed a bomb into my bedroom to remove the threat of it.”

Sydney frowned. ”Didn't you say Faith was sleeping in your room?”

”Yeah.

She woke up and heard someone at the window. Otherwise she'd be dead too.”

Kane had been listening for Faith but she had not yet emerged from thebedroom.

”Then the bomb could have been meant for her?”

”Could have. But with her memory like Swiss cheese, and no real evidence that she was the intended target, it's just as likely I was.”

Sydney sipped her coffee for several minutes.

-Kane, that reward ... ”What about it?”

”Well, maybe Guy is right. Maybe offering that money put a giant target

on your back.”

”Then it's accomplis.h.i.+ng at least one of my goals- it's making somebody very, very nervous. And nervous men make mistakes, Syd.

If he's running around trying to kill me, he's not hiding-and I have a

better chance of spotting him.”

She looked at him searchingly. ”Getting yourself killed won't bring Dinah back.”

”I know that. I don't have a death wish, if that's what you're thinking.