Crave 1 by E K Blair

Author:E K Blair [Blair, E K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Part One, Crave
ISBN: 9780996397087
Publisher: E.K. Blair
Published: 2017-08-14T07:00:00+00:00

It’s been two weeks since the break in, and even though only a few remnants of that night’s devastation remain, each creak of the house is more unnerving than the last. I never noticed all the noises this place makes until after the break in, but now, I hear everything. The shift in the air vents each time the AC kicks on, the running water from the fridge when another slat of ice cubes is made, it all piques my awareness and forces a jump to my heart rate.

My mother arrived the following morning. I didn’t want to come back home, but I knew she wouldn’t be okay with me spending another night with Kason, so I wound up sleeping in her bed a few times before I was able to return to my own room.

Still, every now and then, I have a hard time sleeping. Kason will stay on the phone with me those nights, although I’d rather be at his place. Never in my life had I been so scared as I was the night of the burglary. It wasn’t until Kason came for me that my sheer panic started to settle. I didn’t think I’d be able to sleep that night, and even though my nerves were rattled with fear, when I was in his arms, I was eventually able to get some rest.

All the electronics and broken goods have been replaced, new front doors installed, and the holes in the walls patched up. Investigators were able to locate a couple pieces of my mother’s jewelry that ended up in a pawnshop in Fort Meyers. Three men were later arrested. It turns out they were retaliating against the man my mother is representing who’s about to stand trial for first-degree murder charges.

Everything hit the news yesterday, and it’s now known that my mom is the one who will be defending this man’s case. It wouldn’t have been so bad if her client hadn’t made his way into the media over a year ago when the murder happened.

My mother has never been in the public eye, but she explained to me that she’s never worked a high-profile case before, either, so it was bound to hit the news as the trial drew near.

“Do you believe he did it?” I asked, not liking that my mother would defend a murderer.

“It doesn’t matter what I believe, sweetheart.”

“How can you say that? How can you defend someone if you know they’re guilty?”

“It’s a complicated thing for some people to understand, but whether he’s actually guilty or not has no relevance on the case.” She went on to explain, “In the courtroom, there’s a difference between factual guilt and legal guilt. The only thing that matters is legal guilt, and that’s up to the prosecution to prove. It’s my job to defend my client no matter what I think. It’s more than my job—it’s their right. In the end, I don’t hold the gavel, the judge does.”

I still don’t know how she could stand behind a man she knows is a killer.

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