Twice A Hero, Always Her Man. Marie Ferrarella
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anything remotely resembling pity, even if it came in the guise of sympathy.
All he could do was ask, “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.” The words Now go were implied if not said out loud.
Shaking his head, Jerry took his camera and walked out.
“See you around, Detective,” he said by way of a parting comment.
Turning back to the detective, Ellie picked up the conversation where she’d left it. “You asked me why before.”
Colin had just assumed that she’d forgotten and would go off on another topic. That she didn’t raised his estimation of her. And he really had to say that so far, he liked what he saw. Liked it a lot. Maybe there was hope for him yet. At least, he’d like to think so.
“Yes, I did.” His tone gave her an opening to continue her line of thinking.
“Because I am one of those people who has to know everything,” she told him simply. “That doesn’t mean I repeat everything I hear or everything I know, but I need to know it. And once I have all the information and can process it, then I can move on.”
He looked at her and made a judgment call. “So this really isn’t for your ‘story’?” he asked.
“No. Not directly.” And then she qualified her statement. “That doesn’t mean that I won’t use a piece of what you tell me—but again, we’ll run it by you first. You’ll get the final okay.”
He had to admit that he thought it a generous way to proceed. “Is this your normal procedure?”
Ellie laughed. She had no idea that he found the sound captivating. “There is no such thing as ‘normal’ procedure. It is what it is at the moment.”
Colin paused, considering her words and if he believed her.
Like a lot of true dyed-in-the-wool detectives, he had “gut feelings.”
“Gut feelings” that saw him through a lot and, on occasion, kept him safe. His gut feeling told him that the woman with the deep crystal-blue eyes was telling him the truth.
He took a chance. “They died in an avalanche.”
“That had to be terrible for you,” she said. It was certainly different from the usual car crash or drive-by shooting. She managed to control her reaction so he wasn’t aware that what he said had affected her.
“It wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for Heather, either,” he pointed out.
“You were the one who broke the news to her?” Even as Ellie asked the question, she knew that he would have taken it upon himself to tell his niece. Benteen struck her as that sort of person. She was filled with empathy for both the detective and his niece, knowing what being told news like that felt like.
“I wasn’t about to let anyone else do it,” he said.
No, I wouldn’t have thought so.
Without her realizing it, her estimation of the detective rose up yet another notch.
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