"Whoever it was nearly succeeded," Alice added. "Wyatt is in intensive care at Cadence Memorial Hospital under an armed guard. The doctors finished operating a couple of hours ago. His condition is listed as critical."
Lydia relaxed slightly. "I see. Well, that's unfortunate but I can't say that I'm terribly surprised. Wyatt is a Guild boss, after all. No one rises to that position without making enemies. Guild politics are notoriously messy. At least they are here in Cadence."
"True," Alice agreed in a very neutral tone of voice.
Lydia frowned. "So, why do you want to question Emmett?"
"Because the word on the street is that he's the new acting head of the Cadence Guild." Alice's smile was ice cold. "The way I heard it, he will take over permanently if Wyatt doesn't make it out of intensive care."
Chapter 2
He had known this would not be easy.
Three hours later Emmett watched Lydia de-rez the lock on the front door of her apartment. She had not said a word during the drive home following the formalities at Detective Martinez's office. The continuing silence was a bad sign. Lydia was normally never loathe to let him know exactly what she was thinking.
It was as though she was suffering some form of shock but he was not certain how to deal with it. For starters, he was not sure what had upset her the most, finding Maltby's body or the news that the man whose bed she was sharing on a fairly frequent basis was the temporary chief of the Cadence Guild.
He had the unpleasant feeling that it was the second piece of news that had made her go tense and silent.
Lydia was convinced that she had good reason not to trust ghost-hunters and she made no secret of her negative opinion of the Guild. That she was involved in an affair with him did not mean she had changed her mind on either point, he reminded himself.