-Caleb-We white-knuckled it in the back of Officer Alexander’s car, me laying across the floor, Jacey laying across the back seat. He’d suggested we go in separate cars, but we’d refused. If someone was being kidnapped or killed this time, we were going together.This time, Officer Alexander was dr
She took my hand, and I pulled her out as well.Six agents surrounded us immediately, a seventh switching with Officer Alexander and driving the unmarked car away.Officer Alexander muscled his way into the phalanx to stand next to us. “Keep your heads down.”We both ducked.Together, the whole grou
“What?!” I yelled. I glared at my mother, who at least had the decency to look at the floor. “I was kicked out of the house when she ‘assaulted’ you, and the way Jacey tells it, she pushed you out of the way because you were blocking the door!”My mother hugged our brother against her like a shield.
-Jacey-I sat in a little side room with Caleb and Officer Alexander, the stuffy FBI agent and a few others stationed outside the door. Caleb winced at some bad coffee—I hadn’t even bothered to try it—but Officer Alexander seemed to be enjoying it. Hours ticked by on an overhead round-faced clock. I
“Sustained. Ms. Jepsen, let’s contain the line of questioning to Mr. Masterson’s crimes, if we can,” Judge Powell reprimanded her lightly.I couldn’t think of a worse crime than causing your son to kill himself and then turning his funeral into some sort of farce by acting sad at it when you’d calle
-Caleb-When Jacey didn’t return, but the rude FBI agent stuck his head in and called for me, I was beyond worried. Why isn’t she here? Where did she go?“Put some hustle in it,” he complained. “It’s your turn to testify.”I scowled at him but stood just the same. “Officer Alexander? Could you go ch
“What I heard him admit to was defense of another,” the Attorney General argued. “If not self-defense.”“He did shoot me,” I said.Chalmers snorted. “I guess we only have your word on that.”I scowled at him then smoothed back some of my hair to reveal the graze mark near my temple.That shut him up
“No, it makes you alive, period. The Trinary is after us for the ransom on our heads,” I said. “So… you’re welcome.”He seemed to be thinking the same thing I was—that Bea and Hansen had been killed by those bastards—and they were excellent agents. Probably a lot more skilled than he was. “I suppose
“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