Girl With A Rose by Leslie Wolfe

Author:Leslie Wolfe [Wolfe, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Italics Publishing
Published: 2020-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

10

Again

Tess slammed the SUV door and started the engine, then took off, leaving the parking lot with tires screaming against the asphalt.

“That girl doesn’t even know how not to lie,” she mumbled, backtracking her earlier drive toward the governor’s house. “Like father, like daughter. What is it with these people? Do they take truth-suppression pills or something?” She ended her rant with a couple of oaths, then focused.

Alice.

Her again.

She held all the answers but was just as willing to share them as a weathered Freemason with nothing left to lose.

“Oh, but she does have something to lose,” Tess mumbled again. “Let’s see what dear old dad has to say when I bust his little girl for making false statements.”

She checked the time just as she was pulling over in front of the Bachert residence. It was almost noon. The twenty-four hours were almost up, and she was still chasing lies, while Kaylee was fighting for her life somewhere. Maybe. If she was still alive.

She banged on the door angrily, and the governor opened the door, visibly surprised. He must’ve been ready to leave, being that he was carrying a briefcase in his hand.

“Agent Winnett, what now?”

His broad shoulders blocked her entry.

“I need to speak with Alice immediately,” she said, her eyes firmly locked with his.

“I’m sorry, Agent Winnett, but my daughter no longer wishes to answer your questions. Now if you’ll excuse—”

“What, we’re going to do this all over again? I can question her now, in your presence or not, or I can have her arrested for making false statements to a federal agent. Your call.”

Without another word, he stepped out of the doorframe, letting her in. Based on his reaction, he already knew Alice had lied to her and had been advised on how to cooperate.

Once inside, Bachert closed the door, and Wade Hebert, the Bacherts’ lawyer, rushed to meet her.

“Agent Winnett,” he said, “you do realize, I hope, that a minor cannot be held accountable for any statement she might’ve made, even alleging she has made such a misleading statement intentionally. An underage person cannot fully comprehend the weight of such a statement, not to mention distinguish clearly along the fine lines between right and wrong. We can argue it was made in error—”

“Ah, save it,” Tess said, turning toward Bachert. “Where is she?”

A few moments later, Bachert brought his daughter into his home office. Judging by the firm grip he had on the girl’s arm, she was participating against her will. She’d been crying, her swollen, red eyes a testimony to that, but the glances she threw Tess were fierce, not subdued.

“The time you wasted could’ve cost Kaylee her life,” Tess said, skipping past the niceties and going for the blood. “If that proves to be true, I will see that you are charged and held accountable for it, to the full extent of the law.”

Color drained from the girl’s face, and she sat on a nearby chair, in front of her father’s massive desk. Hebert wanted to intervene, but Bachert stopped him with a hand gesture.

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