Brian (Texas Boudreau Brotherhood Book 12) by Kathy Ivan

Author:Kathy Ivan [Ivan, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathy Ivan
Published: 2022-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Harper looked around Chance’s office. She’d never actually been inside the courthouse, there’d never been a reason. The district attorney’s office was on the second floor, above the courtrooms. She’d met the assistant district attorney, who’d popped her head in the door for a few seconds before heading downstairs, ready to listen to a defendant’s attorney offer a plea deal. From their brief conversation, it sounded like they’d take it.

“It should only be a couple more minutes. I asked you to be here so we could go over a few things before Brian gets here.”

“No problem. I want to get this over, clear my name so I can get on with my life.”

Chance shrugged off his jacket and hung it over the back of his big leather chair, sat, and pulled out two manila folders and laid them on the desktop. The sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach tightened when she realized those files were about her. All the facts and information about her life. She winced, wondering if they held information about the years before she left home. The dreaded juvenile record she desperately tried to forget existed, from the time after she’d run far from Louisiana. She’d fought hard to put her past behind her. To take the shattered ruin of her childhood and teen years and turn them into something if not better, at least respectable.

While Chance gathered whatever it was he needed from his desk, Harper drew in a deep breath, held it, and then let it out. Repeated this several times, drawing on the yoga techniques she’d learned, slowly drawing in air through her nose and breathing slowly out her mouth. Then she focused on loosening her muscles. Normally, she’d start with her feet and progressively move upward, alternating compressing and then relaxing the muscles. Closing her eyes, she visualized a place of calm. Sometimes it was a lazy river with a cool breeze blowing through her hair, feeling the sunshine warming her. Other times it was floating on a soft cloud, weightless, lifting into the sky without any cares. Simply allowing herself to become limp, without form, the soft sounds of gentle waves lapping against the shore lulling her to sleep.

But today her happy place was different than anything before. Today, she pictured her little cabin. She could hear the birds chirping, their song happy and free. Smell the fragrant scent of the pine trees where the cabin was secreted away from prying eyes, the familiar fragrance reminding her of being outdoors. Could feel the sunshine on her shoulders, almost taste the crisp fresh air. It had become a refuge, a sanctuary from her crazy life, and anytime she was there she felt a serenity and peace she wasn’t accustomed to.

“Harper?”

Heat rushed into her cheeks when she realized Chance had been calling her name. She’d been deep within her visualization exercises and hadn’t heard him. Sometimes she tended to zone out when she meditated. Of course, normally she was at home, not in her attorney’s office trying to come up with a proper defense to keep from going to prison.

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