Black Diamond by Elisa Marie Hopkins

Author:Elisa Marie Hopkins [Hopkins, Elisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781634157940
Publisher: Stellar Jay Publications
Published: 2015-10-19T07:00:00+00:00

AFTER BREAKFAST, OLIVER retreats to his sculptured garden and walks barefoot in the grass, musing over the water wall and flirting with the possibilities of a new business venture. He received an offer to buy a family-owned water company in New Jersey called Hydrohouse Inc., but it’s in bad shape, so he would have to use money out of his pocket or apply for a federal loan. Either way, being very pragmatic, he has some thinking to do. Not that anyone notices, but Oliver is devastated. Black International is no longer under his reign, and he desperately wants it back. Since he’s been back from Canada, he has not wasted one precious minute being idle.

“Oliver, why don’t you retire?” Sophie asked him once.

“Retire? Retire to what?”

“I don’t know. To a peaceful and stress-free life?”

“I’ve poured my life’s blood into that company!”

They didn’t talk about the subject again.

Sophie shows Sarah the guest bedroom where she can take a nap and attempt to fight off a sudden migraine. Returning to the bedroom she shares with Oliver, Sophie settles into a comfortable chair in her reading area and fires up her laptop, then googles Anna Summers. The search turns up nothing relevant. She looks out the window, to the view of the Empire State Building, the MetLife building, and beyond to New Jersey. She bites her lip, thinking.

“Anna Summers death,” she types.

There are tons of articles. She eyes the first headline from a month ago—one disturbing sentence: “Woman Found Dead in Cherry Hill Home.” She double-clicks on it and reads through the article.

“Police found Anna Summers, 32, dead inside her Cherry Hill home. Acting on a lead, FBI dug in the basement where they found her buried under the concrete. Summers had a foster daughter and is said to have been with child at the time of her death.”

“What the hell?” she whispers. Sophie feels like she’s been punched. For another hour, she googles and reads everything she can find related to the story, until she feels a breath on her ear.

“Anything good?”

“Jesus Christ!” she shouts, slamming shut the laptop. She jumps up, places the laptop in the chair, and turns to confront him. “Oliver! Why do you always have to sneak up on me like that? You’re going to give me a heart attack!”

“How could I sneak up on you in our bedroom? I thought you heard me walk in.” He displays a pleased expression.

“No, I didn’t. You prowl around like a cat.”

“The key is balance,” he boasts. “It’s an incredibly useful skill.”

“Wear a bell or something.”

He laughs, taking no offense. “What were you doing?”

She runs her hands through her disarrayed hair. “Nothing. Reading.”

“About Anna Summers?”

“You know about her?”

“Yes. I was present during Bridges’s interrogation. They arrested him for the murder of Anna Summers and her unborn child.”

“Right. Sarah ratted him out.”

“Correct.”

“The articles don’t mention anything about Bridges, though. Did he confess?”

“Of course not. He denies it completely. I don’t know all the details. Why are you investigating Anna Summers?”

“Because it could be something important…Sarah mentioned her once.

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