Bulletproof 03 - In Close by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak [Novak, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Families, Law Enforcement, Single Mothers, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Thrillers, Romantic Supsense Fiction, Montana, Suspense, Sheriffs, Missing Persons, General, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780778312666
Google: 9lLdq-G5pbIC
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2011-10-25T05:00:00+00:00

After Claire left, Isaac pulled on a pair of sweatpants and wandered into his office. There, he unlocked the safe in which he stored the flash drives that contained originals of all his work and took a manila folder from the bottom shelf. Inside were two pages—all the private investigators had been able to dig up on his mother.

She wasn’t bad-looking, he thought as he stared down at her mug shot. She might even have been pretty, before her drug habit. By the time this picture was taken, two years before her accidental overdose, she’d been living on the streets and selling her body to survive. If she hadn’t been arrested for prostitution, he wouldn’t have a single photograph of her.

What he’d found when he’d gone looking for the person who’d abandoned him hadn’t been anything like he’d hoped—but he’d found answers. The mystery that had plagued him for so long, that had kept him restless day and night, had been solved when he’d finally come to terms with the fact that he had to know and had stopped lying to himself, stopped saying that it didn’t matter. His mother had driven off in her rattletrap car and left him in the bathroom at a roadside convenience store/café, and she’d done it because she loved crack more than she loved him.

Bailey Rawlings. That was the name she was using at the time of her arrest. He wasn’t sure if that had always been her name. For all he knew, she could’ve made it up so she wouldn’t embarrass her family, or in case they ever wanted to find her. At five, she’d merely been Mommy to him. The P.I. had dug up Isaac’s birth certificate, which had the name Morgan on it but no father.

When the P.I. managed to track down Bailey’s parents, whose surname was Morgan, Isaac had gone to see them in South Carolina. They hadn’t known whether she’d ever married; if the name Rawlings meant she had, they’d never been told. They hadn’t known she had a child either, so it’d been awkward. As soon as he learned they couldn’t tell him anything about his dad, he’d said goodbye and they hadn’t been in touch since, except for the Christmas card he’d received last December. He hadn’t bothered searching for his father beyond that. It was enough to know what had happened to his mother. Considering her lifestyle, he could guess that his father was probably some john who wouldn’t be too interested in discovering he’d had a baby with a prostitute.

Sketchy though the details were, the information in this folder had turned him around. Made him grateful for what he had. Made him realize he was almost certainly better off than he would’ve been if she’d kept him. He’d been raised in a good place by people with the best of intentions who’d tolerated him despite the trouble he gave them. He wished he’d treated Old Man Tippy with more respect when he’d had the chance.

He had his answers, so he could bind up that festering wound.

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