All this was in Leo’s mind as he and Timmy walked home from Saint David’s on Eighty-ninth Street off Fifth Avenue to the apartment, eight blocks away on Lexington Avenue and Ninety-fourth Street. After Greg’s death Laurie had moved immediately, unable to bear the sight of the playground where Greg had been shot.
A passing police cruiser slowed as it drove past them. The officer in the passenger seat saluted Leo.
“I like it when they do that to you, Grandpa,” Timmy announced. “It makes me feel safe,” he added matter-of-factly.
Be careful, Leo warned himself. I’ve always told Timmy that if I wasn’t around and he or his friends had a problem they should run to a police officer and ask for help. Unconsciously, he tightened his grip on Timmy’s hand.
“Well, you haven’t had any problems that I couldn’t solve for you.” Then he added carefully, “At least as far as I know.”
They were walking north on Lexington Avenue. The wind had shifted and felt raw against their faces. Leo stopped and firmly pulled Timmy’s woolen cap down over his forehead and ears.
“One of the guys in the eighth grade was walking to school this morning and some guy on a bike tried to grab his cell phone out of his hand. A policeman saw it and pulled the guy over,” Timmy said.
It hadn’t been an incident involving someone with blue eyes. Leo was ashamed to admit to himself how relieved that made him. Uuhl Greg’s killer was apprehended, he needed to know that Timmy and Laurie were safe.
Someday justice will be served, he vowed to himself.
This morning, as she hurried out to work seconds after he arrived, Laurie had said that she was going to hear the verdict on the reality show she was proposing. Leo’s mind moved restlessly to that concern. He knew he would have to wait for the news until tonight. Over their second cup of coffee, when Timmy had finished dinner and was curled up in the big chair with a book, she would discuss it with him. Then he would leave for his own apartment a block away. At the end of the day, he wanted Laurie and Timmy to have their own space, and he was satisfied that no one would get past the doorman in their building without a phone call to the resident they claimed to be visiting.
If she got the go-ahead to do that series, it’s going to be bad news, Leo thought.
A man with a hooded sweatshirt, dark sunglasses, and a canvas bag on his shoulder, seeming to come out of nowhere, darted past him on roller skates, almost knocking over Timmy, then a very pregnant young woman who was about ten feet ahead of them.
“Get off the sidewalk,” Leo shouted as the skater turned the corner and disappeared.
Behind the dark sunglasses, bright blue eyes glittered and the skater laughed aloud.
Such encounters fed his need for the sense of power he felt when he literally touched Timmy and knew that on any given day he could carry out his threat.
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MARY HIGGINS CLARK is the author of twenty-eight suspense novels; three collections of short stories; a historical novel, Mount Vernon Love Story; a memoir, Kitchen Privileges; and a children’s book, Ghost Ship, illustrated by Wendell Minor.
She is also the coauthor with Carol Higgins Clark of five holiday suspense novels: Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You’re Sleeping, The Christmas Thief, Santa Cruise, and Dashing Through the Snow. More than ninety million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone, and her books are worldwide bestsellers.
BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK
Ghost Ship (illustrated by Wendell Minor)
Where Are You Now?
I Heard That Song Before
Two Little Girls in Blue
No Place Like Home
Nighttime Is My Time
The Second Time Around
Kitchen Privileges
Mount Vernon Love Story
Daddy’s Little Girl
On the Street Where You Live
Before I Say Good-bye
We’ll Meet Again
All Through the Night
You Belong to Me
Pretend You Don’t See Her
My Gal Sunday
Moonlight Becomes You
Silent Night
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Lottery Winner
Remember Me
I’ll Be Seeing You
All Around the Town
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Weep No More, My Lady
Stillwatch
A Cry in the Night
The Cradle Will Fall
A Stranger Is Watching
Where Are the Children?
BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK
AND CAROL HIGGINS CLARK
Dashing Through the Snow
Santa Cruise
The Christmas Thief
He Sees You When You’re Sleeping
Deck the Halls
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