Etched in Stone (Six Degrees Series Book 2) by Statham Mayra

Author:Statham, Mayra [Statham, Mayra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2015-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Parker

Once my driver drops me off at home, I walk in. Instantly the coldness and silence hit me. It’d felt that way since Ellie had left yesterday and I’d drowned myself in booze.

I’d watched her from my window, clearly upset and pissed in her car, but I’d been too pissed and self-absorbed at the moment to think about what it meant. All morning long I’d been in meeting after meeting, of which I had no idea what they were about because all I could think about was her and her meltdown in her car. If she really wanted to let Thompson get in there, why the fuck would she have been that upset? The thought ate at me until I gave in and by noon, I had Joan cancel all my meetings. All afternoon I spent reading and rereading the entire fucking file that Tim had made on her. He’d been through too.

She’d lost her parents in a fire the night of her tenth birthday. She’d been placed into the foster care system after no close living relative wanted to take her in. She’d been placed in numerous homes, one in which her foster dad had beat her.

The pictures of the small defenseless fourteen year old Liz staring back at me, bruised eyes and arms were haunting. In the notes that Tim had made for me, it said that she hated being called Lizzy. She’d told me that. That was what her foster dad had called her, the one who’d beat her black and blue. After that she’d miraculously been placed in nicer foster homes in nicer areas. She kept to herself, did well in school. Had great grades and had received a scholarship and financial aid to go to USC.

There she studied art. When her financial aid ran out, she left school. This I knew. What I didn’t know was what Tim somehow found out. Was that not only had Thompson and Liz lived together, she’d also helped him get through school. She had worked two and three jobs at a time. When Thompson left for London, she stayed here. Her savings ran out and she started to work at Shine.

She’d danced, waitressed and had tended bar at Shine.

I knew of Belle Garibaldi and her girls. I’d even been to shine in the past for business meetings and knew that the place crawled with the mighty and powerful of California and other West Coast states. I knew that Belle had girls that did a vast array of services for the right price. What Tim didn’t find was any evidence that my angel had done any of those extra things, but he also hadn’t found evidence that she hadn’t.

I’d had a couple of drinks while I’d re-read her file, trying to figure it all out. Trying to figure her out and why I could not stop thinking about her.

Broke and desperate she’d taken the job at Shine. Then I remembered what she had said about the girls who worked at Shine when we had been driving to the airport after brunch with my parents.

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