Billionaire's Secret: A Billionaire Bad Boy Second Chance Romance by M.K. Morgan

Author:M.K. Morgan [Morgan, M.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Bad Luck Charm

Eve remained on the couch in a state of shock for quite some time. Iris had tried to turn off the television, but Eve wouldn’t let her. The news kept on replaying the story like they couldn’t get enough of it. It was all Eve could do to not rewind and replay the moment Ethen stepped into the cop car over and over again. She hadn’t focused completely on what they were saying about him or what he allegedly did, but she caught snippets of it in her cloudy state. She knew they were trying to make it so he would not be able to post bail; because of his immense wealth, they called him a flight risk. That he had never filed a missing person’s report. Whatever the new evidence was, they weren’t sharing it with the public yet. They would keep it close to the chest until the trial if they could. It would allow for shock value, giving them the likelihood that the jury would be more apt to react in their favor and convict him. Eve didn’t realize until her palms started to bleed again that she had unknowingly pressed her fingernails deeply into them. She had not done that in a long time.

It wasn’t hard to speculate what they had on him, though; there were a million different things it could be. Fingerprints, new DNA evidence, a witness stepping forward, a paper trail that they hadn’t been able to follow until now. The possibilities were endless. Whatever they had was falsified, Eve was sure of that. She wished that Ethen had not wiped his blackmail from the drives. It only increased his appearance of guilt. If only he had left it there, Eve could have easily used it to prove his innocence. As she thought about this, she once again began to fret over the idea that maybe the information wasn’t falsified. Maybe it was possible that whatever new evidence they had was incriminating – because he was a criminal.

Eve tried to shake the thought from her mind but was unsuccessful. She felt her stomach churn with nauseating rumbles. Iris must have noticed the slight shift in her discomfort as she stood from the table where she was sitting and walked over to the couch. She sat next to Eve and pulled her into her arms. Finally, Eve broke into tears. She sobbed against Iris, wanting nothing more than to fall asleep and wake up from this nightmare. Iris shushed her gently, running her hand through her hair and rocking her. It was as though Eve had become a child and Iris her mother. They often switched roles like this, both used to playing protector and protected. They didn’t have anyone else to do this for them, so they made due with each other.

“We’ve been through worse than this,” Iris whispered to Eve as she cried into her friend’s shoulder. Unfortunately, this was very true; both of them had been through far worse than this and at far too young of an age.

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