Chapter 2
He didn't draw back as Lorelei flung her arms around his neck.
"It was him – I know it was him. I was his friend, and yet he tried to kill me."
Jane looked down at her wearily. "I told you he has no friends. Just tools he's ready to discard when they're of no more use."
A shiver ran down her spine. He could tell that she was really frightened now.
"Don't let him kill me. Please."
"I'll do what I can. But you have to help me. Tell me who he is, and where we could find him."
Lorelei stared wildly around the room. "Okay."
The breath caught in his throat as she clung to him more tightly – her pregnant belly squeezed between them.
Red John was so very much mistaken if he thought he was going to take another child away from him.
…
Lisbon flinched slightly as she witnessed their embrace from the other side of a two-way mirror.
It wasn't out of jealousy. She knew that Jane felt nothing but pity for the wretched woman.
Yet she couldn't help wishing that their places had been exchanged. That she was the one carrying his child.
She straightened her back and went out of the room.
They had a bastard to catch now. All the rest could wait.