Worth the Trip

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Author: Penny McCall
emotional. “I’m sure I’ll be fine by myself.”
    “I’m sure you won’t. And you’re not leaving.”
    He put his hand on her elbow, a gentlemanly gesture. And a statement of his intentions.
    She pulled free, then put a foot of space between them, sending a message of her own. “You said all I had to do was listen to you, and then I could send you away.”
    “I didn’t say I’d go.”
     
    “ARE WE GOING TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DRIVE TO South Chicago in silence?” Trip asked her about five minutes after they’d pulled out of the parking structure.
    Norah concentrated on midday traffic. It wasn’t exactly “are we there yet?” but she still found it annoying. She didn’t want to talk, she wanted to process, to let the events of the past hour and the snippets of information she’d dragged out of Trip thrash around in her brain until the truth beat the crap out of the lies and the spin spun itself off into oblivion.
    “We’re going to be spending a lot of time together. It’ll be easier if we make an effort to get along.”
    “If you’re looking for sweet and agreeable you might want to cut your losses and move on.”
    “Hmmm, I wonder what a psychologist would make of this level of hostility?”
    “If it were me I’d take it as intense cynicism toward the person on the receiving end, based on an extensive past history of dealing with men with your brand of insincere charm and propensity for obfuscation.”
    Trip just stared at her.
    “I don’t trust you,” she translated.
    “You don’t have to trust me. You need me.”
    “So you keep saying.” Then again, he had come in handy several times already. And she was including The Kiss. She couldn’t begin to gage the cost to her personal and professional life, but the look on Hollie’s face? Priceless. “Look, I appreciate you risking your life and everything, but like you said, that car was just a scare tactic. I don’t think—”
    “So you haven’t gotten any hang-up calls.”
    “Everyone gets hang-up calls.”
    “But you’ve been getting a lot more than normal.”
    “I broke up with my boyfriend, too. Is that indicative of anything?”
    “Good taste?”
    Norah had to smile over that. “Raymond wasn’t a bad guy, really, just . . . I don’t know why I stayed with him so long.”
    “Sure, you do.”
    Laziness, she thought, although that wasn’t it, exactly. More like she’d chosen him for all the wrong reasons, chief among them being he was the exact opposite of her father. Staid, settled, reliable, comfortable . . . boring, which was exactly why the relationship had stagnated. No spark. Of any kind, really. She and Raymond Kline, dean of the Midwest School of Psychology, had always been more like friends than lovers, and once they’d stopped struggling with the lack of chemistry it hadn’t been a bad relationship. Especially since he was one of the few people she’d run across who knew about her father and didn’t care. “You don’t think he—”
    “No,” Trip said, “he’s an idiot, but we didn’t find anything linking him to the crime—or anyone involved with the crime.”
    “You had him checked out?”
    “Yes.”
    “How many others—No, don’t answer that.”
    “It was necessary.”
    “Right. You’re worried about the people in my life, but you’re the one who invaded my privacy, not to mention the privacy of my friends.”
    “And neighbors.”
    “You’re not helping your case.”
    “No, but you value honesty.”
    Norah glanced over at him. He had a stunning profile, classic, strong, handsome as sin. And he was playing her with every word he uttered through his even, white teeth.
    “You’re giving me just as much as you think is necessary to get what you want,” she said.
    And there was that jaw flex again. He didn’t like that she’d pegged him, but he didn’t value her preference for honesty enough to say it outright.
    Trouble was, he had the upper hand, not because he was stubborn and devious and
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