03.She.Wanted.It.All.2005 by Casey Kathryn

Author:Casey, Kathryn [Casey, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Within a few hours of the shooting, word was out, and friends began arriving at Brackenridge. The first were Philip Presse, the attorney, and his wife, Ana, who’d been Celeste’s matron of honor at her wedding to Steve. Celeste was crying, and Ana gave her a Xanax to help her relax. Soon, Gus and Linda Voelzel, and the Baumans and Ray McEachern, arrived.

“What happened?” Gus asked.

“Someone shot Steve,” Celeste said. They asked questions, but Celeste’s replies supplied few answers. Many of the things she said didn’t make sense. At one point she turned to Linda and insisted, “There aren’t any guns in our house.”

Why is she telling me that? Linda wondered.

“Where was Meagan?” Linda asked. “Didn’t she bark?”

“She was at the lake house with the kids,” Celeste said.

The Voelzels exchanged bewildered glances; Steve’s friends knew the old lab followed him like an obedient puppy. Then Celeste said something that left them all staring at her, searching her face for answers: Steve hadn’t put the alarm on that night.

“Steve was neurotic about that alarm, made sure it was on every night,” says McEachern. “There was no way he was the one who left it off.”

A deputy stood nearby. While Celeste talked to the others, McEachern eased over to his side. “You watch that woman,” he whispered, pointing to Celeste. “If she gets the chance, she’ll pull the plug and finish him off.”

“You’re just upset,” the deputy said. “We tested her for residue. She didn’t fire a gun.”

“I don’t care what you tested. He’s in danger with her here,” Ray answered.

As McEachern spoke, Celeste praised Steve to the others and pledged her love for him. She said she didn’t think she could live without him. And she cried.

With the exception of Kristina, the teens, too, were looking at Celeste suspiciously. As they discussed the events of that night, there were just too many oddities. Why did Celeste take Meagan to the lake? Why did she say the boys weren’t allowed to sleep over and send Christopher, Amy, and Jennifer to the lake house? Of them all, Jennifer was the most certain that her mother had some involvement in the shooting. Celeste was ruthless; about that she had no doubt. In the hospital, Jennifer looked across at Kristina, who hovered protectively near their mother. She made a decision there, at that moment. She’d keep her distance from Celeste and watch. But she wouldn’t tell Kristina her suspicions. “I love Kristina to death,” she says. “But I didn’t trust her not to tell our mother.”

As Jennifer thought the situation through, she believed her mother was not only involved with the shooting but, under the right circumstances, capable of hurting not only Steve, but her and Kristina. She considered fleeing somewhere Celeste couldn’t find her. But she couldn’t. “Kristina wouldn’t go, and I would never leave her behind.”

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