Devil's Cut by J.R. Ward

Author:J.R. Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

As Sutton sat across from Edward, she was torn. She wanted to keep confronting him about their relationship—or, hell, whatever it was they had between them—but there was a larger, more important imperative. When Lane had called her from the hospital, it was obvious he was shaken up, and as he had spoken to her with great, shocking candor, it had become readily apparent why he was upset.

And of course she had volunteered to try to get in front of Edward.

She didn’t think she was going to have the magical effect on the man that his brother seemed to think she would, however. Edward Baldwine had always gone his own way, and she would be a fool to think she was the one person who could get through to him.

But she had to try.

“None whatsoever?” she prompted him. “You can think of no reason your name would be on Miss Aurora’s lips.”

“Maybe she’s worried about Lane and wants me to help. I don’t know. Ask her.”

“Are you aware that there are security cameras out at the Red and Black?”

“Why are we talking about my farm? I thought this was about Miss Aurora.”

“Cameras.” She pointed high in the air. “Up under the roofs of the barns?”

“You know, I think it’s time for me to go—”

“Sit down,” she snapped as he began to get to his feet.

Edward’s brows lifted. And something about her resolve must have shown in her face because he slowly sank back down into the metal chair.

Good move on his part—she had been prepared to tackle him if she had to.

“You didn’t leave the farm on the night of the murder,” she announced. “And don’t deny it. There’s nothing on the cameras to show you or anyone else did—and if you’d used the truck you said you’d taken, there would have been footage of you driving off in it.”

“Do my brother a favor, would you? And tell him to stop with the theories.”

“Lizzie found a knife in Miss Aurora’s quarters this morning.”

“She’s a chef. They’re known to use—”

“In a plastic bag. Behind a picture of Lane.”

Edward planted his hands on the tabletop and pushed himself up. “I’m leaving. Have a nice life, Sutton—and I mean that.”

Sutton let him limp over to the door and start knocking. When no one came, he called out, “Guard.”

“They’re not going to answer,” she said without turning around.

“Why.”

“Because I told them not to.”

He knocked louder. “Guard!”

“Talk to me about the knife, Edward. You know something. You’re protecting someone. And I get all that—it’s in your nature. But here’s the thing. Lane’s not going to quit until you walk out of here a free man, and neither am I.”

“What the hell is wrong with you people!” He wheeled around and came back over. “You’ve got lives to live! Companies to run—why the fuck do either of you care—”

She jumped up and met him face-to-face. “Because we love you! And when someone you love is doing something wrong, you want to stop them!”

Edward’s fury darkened his eyes to almost black and the veins stood out in his neck.

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