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“Yeah? What’re we? Havin’ a party?” Tex asked.
Lee turned cold eyes to Tex and Tex said no more.
Then Lee turned to me.
“I followed you.”
“No one followed me. I kept checking.”
He gave me a look.
Fucking Lee.
“You with her?” Tex ventured.
“Yeah,” Lee answered.
I wanted to scream I was notwithLee and he was notwithme, but the situation kept my mouth shut. Instead, I turned back to the body and there he was, not in the eerie green night vision, but lit up and easy to see. And I could see not only him, but all the blood and gunk that had come out of the back of his head to splatter all over the kitchen wall.
Not Rosie.
It was disgusting. I’d never seen anything so foul. It was a nasty, awful, horrible, smelly, sad death.
I gulped, almost sure I was going to hurl. Lee heard it, grabbed my arm and pulled me through the house and out the back door.
“Lean over. Deep breaths,” he ordered.
We were standing in the back yard and he pressed his hand to the back of my neck to force me over. I put my hands on my knees and gulped deep breaths of fresh air, leaving the Death Air behind. With some effort I fought back the nausea and stood up straight.
Tex had followed us out.
“Was that Tim?” I asked Tex.
“Yep.”
“Ohmigod.”
“Please tell me you didn’t touch anything in there,” Lee said to me.
I shook my head.
“Please tell me you didn’t break that window,” Lee went on.
“I did the breakin’andthe enterin’ for both of us. After I did the breakin’, I threw her through the window,” Tex offered this information and Lee’s eyes cut to Tex.
“I’m sorry?” Lee asked and his voice was scary.
Tex seemed not to notice it. “She was gettin’ second thoughts.”
Lee stared at Tex for a beat.
“Jesus,” he muttered then he pointed at me. “Stay here. Don’t move.” His finger moved to Tex. “You come with me.”
Lee tossed the goggles to Tex and they re-entered the house. I was a little surprised that Tex followed Lee’s command, but then again, Lee was using that brook no argument tone again.
I sat down on the grass, too freaked out to stand any longer, and I put my forehead on my knees.
I feared this didnotbode well for Rosie, and I feared more that this did not bode well for Duke.
