Home Again by Shawna Lynn Brooks

Author:Shawna Lynn Brooks [Brooks, Shawna Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MiBear Tales
Published: 2018-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

“How?”

Heat crept into her cheeks. Am I really going to talk about my fiancé with my ex-boyfriend? Awkward. Her eyes flickered to a group of pictures on the wall. Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and a much younger version of herself all stared back at her. She hardly noticed them.

“I started working for Bill right out of law school. He’d been practicing for seven years, and I was as green as spring grass. He taught me everything I know, and I fell for him.” She flashed him a nervous smile. “At least I thought I did. We got engaged. Six months later, he was gone, along with nine hundred thousand dollars from our law firm’s bank account.”

Jack’s face darkened. “He stole it?”

She dropped her eyes. “Yes. I’m not sure what happened. After he left, I pieced a lot of information together by reading between the lines when I was being interrogated by the FBI.”

“Interrogated?” His eyes skewered her, and she forced herself not to shift under his gaze.

“Yeah.” She swallowed a wave of hot shame. “Bill was a corporate attorney who handled a lot of multi-million-dollar companies. He was a big deal.”

He twirled his finger in a tight circle. “Go on.”

She couldn’t look up at him. She clenched her fingers into fists and stared resolutely off to the side. “So he held a lot of money for them. As it turned out, some of it was legit and some…not so much.”

“Money laundering?”

She flinched at the harsh tone in his voice. “I think so. No one would tell me, since I was a suspect, but that’s what I gathered.”

Jack’s expression turned thunderous, and his jaw clamped so tight she could see a muscle ticking in his neck, but he kept quiet.

“I think something went wrong, but I haven’t been able to figure out what,” she said. “He grabbed the money and bolted, and when he did, he used me to cover his tracks.”

His eyes iced over. Oh, jeez. Of all the reactions he could have had, she hadn’t expected him to believe she was guilty. “Unbelievable.”

She bit down on an urge to beg him to believe her. He didn’t trust her any more than she trusted him, and that was before she’d told him what went wrong.

Instead, she gulped and forced herself to continue. “I was stupid, Jack, but I’m not a criminal. The feds let me go. My firm, though, was another story. They suspended me until they could sort it all out. So I lost my job, which meant I lost my apartment. And my fiancé.” She fixed her eyes on a dark spot on the carpet. “So I did the same thing I did when I lost mom.”

“You came home.”

“I came home.”

# # #

Holy crap. Jack tried to make his brain absorb Maren’s predicament, but he couldn’t. His heartbeat thumped in his temple and guilt and anger warred with each other in his head. For the second time in her life, she had come here because she literally had nowhere else to go.

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