Catch the Saint (27 page)

“No, I wasn’t,”
Simon said. “But do you think she’d believe
me?
It would only have sounded as if I were trying to make her
father look even worse. When you’ve just wrecked a girl’s life,
all the
logic in the world won’t convince her that you
had
to do it.
And in the long run, it’ll be much better for her
to go on hating
me.”

With a final good-bye he
strode from the police car to the door
of
the terminal.

“Well,” Stacey
said, “maybe only a saint could have played it
that
way …”

And they watched him walk
away into the lobby.