Chapter ONE - Weebly

with dark purple bruises. Seeing Ethan, he stood so
quickly that he toppled his chair.
“Thank goodness!” Ethan heard from the bar.
Kannice stepped out into the great room, crossed to
where he stood, and put her arms around him.
“I’ve been worried sick,” she said.
“I’m fine,” he told her, breathing in the scent of her
hair. “They took me to see Hutchinson.”
“Hutchinson?” Diver said, sounding impressed.
“What did he want with you?”
“He wanted to make sure I knew that the same
people who wrecked his house would have been
capable of killing Jennifer Berson.”
“Surely you haven’t been with him all this time,”
Kannice said.
“No. After I left the Town House, I had another
encounter with Sephira’s men.”
Diver walked toward them, looking from Ethan to
Kannice. “And what did they want?”
“Sephira would like me to finish my inquiry and
leave matters as they are,” Ethan said. “Aside from that
though, it was mostly the usual bluster.” He should have