Chapter 4
Cotty found himself wanting Paula Greer more and more as the days wheeled past. It became something of an obsession with him. She didn't encourage him, not in the slightest. Not once during the next two weeks did she relax her cool, indifferent manner toward him. This only served to inflame his passion. He had a strong hunch that she would be willing under the right circumstances, the right circumstances, of course, being the elimination of her husband. She never hinted of this to Cotty, but his conviction grew steadily.
He did learn that she was deathly afraid of Greer and didn't dare leave him. "He'd find me, no matter where I went, and drag me back," she said with a shudder. "And I don't know what he'd do to me then."
This conversation, the first break in her reserve, to
