-Jacey-“Did you really say you wouldn’t testify unless Ms. Jepsen gets Caleb out of jail?” Hansen asked, eyeing me as I sat in the back of the car on the way back from the disastrous deposition.I folded my arms over my chest. “I did.”“And didn’t I tell you that would be a bad idea?” he continued,
“No,” I interrupted. “You have to understand how this works. I am not doing one goddamn thing for you until you get Caleb out of jail. End of conversation. I don’t care how you have to do it. I don’t care what favors you have to call in. I don’t care if you have to give out new favors, or if it look
-Caleb-The shiv stabbed into my shoulder. I shouted in pain, but as Tyson had said, no help was coming.And no help came.“You are such a pain in the ass, you know that, right?” Erickson grunted, thrashing underneath me as I took him to the cement floor. The shiv stabbed over and over again into my
“What happened to Bea and Hansen?” I asked.“Rob, leave the boy alone. He’s had a very traumatic experience,” the Ms. Jepsen inserted quickly.He shook his head at her. “Now, Margerie, you know you shouldn’t tell lies to your witnesses. It makes them so touchy when I expose those lies on the stand.
-Jacey-“Honey, I don’t think you belong here,” a low voice drawled.I blinked my eyes open. Was I in Heaven?Heaven sure smelled bad.I tried to sit up, but my bones hurt too much to let me. The last thing I remembered was jumping off the top of the Holiday Inn Express.Maybe this was hell?A stubb
“Oi, stop squirming around until Horace gets here. Though I still think we should probably take her to a hospital,” the state trooper mused. “I’m Officer Jake Alexander. I’m not gonna hurt you.”“People tell me that all the time.” I grunted, but I did stop moving around, mostly because I wasn’t gett
“Really ought to go to a hospital,” Horace grumbled, but he seemed resigned to the situation.“Not an option right now. Okay, so, Billy, lay her down in the back of the squad,” Office Alexander said.Billy took me to the trooper car and laid me down in the back. The cage between me and the front of
-Caleb-I was sleeping when he came in. It was a good thing, too, because if I’d been awake, I would have hit my call button.Or tried to strangle him with the cordAs it was, Masterson’s voice had my eyes flying wide open the moment he began to speak. “Hello, Caleb.”I looked up at him and felt aro
“So, I think you’ve been doing some snooping,” Ike said, leaning in the doorway.My eyes snapped upward, and I was sure I wasn’t hiding the hatred in them very well. “What the hell is all this?”“Your inheritance. You know, this makes it easier. Your grandfather and I were trying to figure out how t
I dropped the headphones and was about to go striding into the office to break up their nefarious little clique when I looked at Dawn’s screen. She’d left it unlocked.There was a folder open I’d never seen on the server before.I glanced over the monitor to make sure Dawn wasn’t on her way back the
-Will-I sat behind my grandfather’s desk, bored again. After private schools, Yale, and Harvard Business School, I was bored out of my mind. I’d followed my expected trajectory. I’d done everything expected of me.Only once did I ever step a toe out of line. Well, almost. I suggested, at one of my
-Jacey-“Mom? Where did Uncle Billy put the Fruity Pebbles?” McKenzie asked.She’d been home from her first year of college a week and had already settled right in like she owned the place. Billy had taken to hiding the Fruity Pebbles they both liked, one, because he thought it was hilarious, and tw
Shower. SHOWER!!! I stopped her jerking me off and helped her into the tub then followed her in and closed the floral curtain.Jacey went immediately for the soap, lathering up her hands and then starting to scrub me.“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you,” I groaned when she washed my rigid cock.“
I should have been overjoyed. On some level, I was ecstatic. But anger bubbled up in me as well, and I gripped her upper arms and pushed her just far enough away that I could look her in the eyes. “Jacey, you’ve been icing me out for almost a month.”Her eyes welled with tears, but she quickly dashe
-Caleb-A month later, Masterson was in prison, and Jacey and I were back on the farm. She had spoken to me less and less as the weeks passed and was now icing me out altogether. I didn’t blame her. I’d given her false hope.But I’d been so sure Masterson was going to bungle it with Will. A bad nann
“Good luck with that. Look, I really am on your side. This plea bargain is a good thing. Twenty-five years isn’t a short prison sentence, and maybe in that amount of time, he’ll be able to reflect on his actions. Hell, I don’t know, maybe he’ll find Jesus. What I do know is Masterson can provide for
“I hear what you’re saying,” Officer Alexander replied slowly. “And Lord knows I agree with you, but there’s nothing we can do, Jacey. Nothing. Do you understand? I want you to tell me you understand before we go back out there. You can’t make a scene.”My hands balled into fists. “If they don’t wan