The pure pleasure she felt at his words surprised her.
“I’d love that, Kit, but it’s still a little dicey until the final agreement gets signed,” she said. “For the time being, though, would you settle for a series of fun, thought-provoking lunches?”
“Absolutely,” he said, smiling.
The waitress arrived then to take their orders. When she’d departed, Lake looked back at Archer. She wanted to change the subject completely, to leave behind everything connected with the clinic, but there was still one thing she needed to ask.
“Question,” she said. “Do you think the police would have figured out that Rory was the murderer if she hadn’t attacked me?”
“Possibly. From what I know, they felt the wound on Keaton had been made by a woman.”
She reached for her wineglass and twirled it between her fingers.
“Oh-so then maybe they would have.”
“Of course there’s still that little mystery,” Archer said.
Lake swallowed, raised her eyebrows.
“Mystery?” she asked.
“A woman had sex with Keaton the night he died, and it doesn’t sound like Rory Deever took the time to make love to him before she slit his throat. Clearly this person hightailed it out of the apartment just in time. So, as I said once before, there’s a very lucky lady out there somewhere.”
“Yes, very lucky,” Lake said. She met his eyes and smiled.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to say a big thank you to those who helped me so generously while I was doing research for the book: Mary Dodge, PhD, associate professor and director of Criminal Justice Programs, University of Colorado, Denver; Caleb White, police officer, White Plains, New York police; Abigail Greene, managing editor, Cosmopolitan; Dr. Mark Howell, psychotherapist; David Razner, Esq., partner and co-chair of the Family Law Group at Fox Rothschild, LLP; Deb Shriver, PR guru; Dr. Paul Paganelli, chief of Emergency Medicine, Milton Hospital, Milton, Massachusetts; Chet W. Lerner, M.D., chief of Infectious Diseases, New York Downtown Hospital; Barbara Butcher, chief of staff and director of the Forensics Sciences Training Program at the New York City office of the chief medical examiner; Rachel Hayes, editor in chief, DailyMakeover.com; Bobbi Casey Howell, partner, chief customer strategy officer, Deutsch.
Also thank you to my fabulous editor, Sally Kim, and my killer agent, Sandy Dijkstra.
About the Author
KATE WHITE, the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, is the New York Times bestselling author of the Bailey Weggins mystery series-If Looks Could Kill; A Body to Die For; ’Til Death Do Us Part; Over Her Dead Body; and, most recently, Lethally Blond. White is also the author of popular career books for women, including Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do. Hush is her first stand-alone thriller. She lives in New York City with her family.
www.katewhite.com
