Two Weeks Before… Half the world away in Italy.
The private investigator sat impatiently waiting for the head honcho to call him in. He was tired from the long international flight, followed by the
CHAPTER 86SuttonTwo days later I came home from the grocery store to find Mark had returned. But he wasn’t alone.
CHAPTER 87Sutton“I had just turned up the radio and started to sing along,” Candice said in a gruff voice. Her body was bandaged and bruised, and she was awaiting x-rays to see what was broken. But she was okay, and that was all tha
CHAPTER 88SuttonThere are defining moments in each of our lives. Moments that you know no matter what happens afterward, that you will always remember. The smell of Knox’s cop car. The shiny floors of the police station. The sounds of a typewriter somewhe
CHAPTER 89Sutton“She hit him in the lung,” the pretty new deputy named Katie told me. “He didn’t even make it to the hospital. But we did get Margaret’s statement. She confessed to everything, including Forrest’s involvement.
PROLOGUESuttonBefore Mama got sick, she would often tell me that there were two kinds of people in this world.“The first ones are like you and me,” she’d say
CHAPTER 2SuttonYou didn’t grow up the way I had around men and let some stranger put his hands on you. I was about to hand the fancy city slicker his ass when Mad Max flew across the room and held a fork to the handsome man’s neck.
CHAPTER 3SuttonI could feel Mr. Williams’ gaze on my body as I hurriedly went through the closing routine at the bar. Every time my eyes met his penetrating gray ones, I pretended that I didn’t notice him staring. But we both knew better.
CHAPTER 4SuttonI snuck surreptitious gazes at Mr. Williams in the moonlight as we approached the trailer. As much as I didn’t want to admit it, the man was drop dead gorgeous. I liked the fancy way he talked and the air of superiority that radiated from his body. I especially liked the five o’clock shadow on his jaw that I had a feeling most people n