Girl in the Shadows (Shadows 2)

houses to fix up. They have serious debts with bad

people."

"What are we going to do?" I asked him. "Nothing right now. All I got to go on is a

feeling, but you watch and wait long enough and the

rat comes out."

"To me it already has." I said.

He nodded and went out to the winery.

Meanwhile. Echo, impatient now, went looking for

her mother and discovered she was gone. A look of

panic came over her when she found out they had left.

Her hands were flying about like small birds trying to

draw diagrams in the air. 'Where were they? When did

they leave? When were they coming back?"

"They have business here and had an

appointment," I told her.

Maybe I was passing on a lie as Trevor thought,

but I didn't want her worrying. I saw she couldn't

concentrate on our work. She was constantly thinking

about her mother, looking alit the wi

ndow for her and

Skeeter's return, so I asked Mrs. Westington if it

would be all right to take Echo for a ride. "We'll

return to the mall," I told her. "I need some other

things and Echo enjoyed it so."

She thought a moment and nodded. "It would

be good to keep her mind off you know who," she

said, reading my mind. "And I know you're

responsible and trustworthy enough to look after her." When I told Echo, she was bright and happy

again. This would actually be the first trip she had

ever taken without her grandmother and Trevor