Howard, Linda - The Cutting Edge by The Cutting Edge

Author:The Cutting Edge [Edge, The Cutting]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:44:40.217000+00:00

It was late that night when Tessa let herself back into her apartment, and she groped her way through the dark to the couch, not even thinking to turn on any lights. She sat down, Silver's discarded letter crinkling under her, and she automatically removed the sheets of paper. Fine tremors shook her entire body, and she couldn't stop them. She'd been shaking for hours, ever since the nightmare had begun. This wasn't happening to her; it couldn't be happening. She hadn't believed Detective Madison, at first. She'd actually laughed, wanting to know who was behind the joke. Detective Warnick had read her her rights, gently but inexorably insisted that she get her purse and come with them, and still Tessa hadn't believed it was anything serious. It wasn't until she was escorted outside and put in the back seat of what was obviously an unmarked police car that she'd been struck with the realization that this was no joke, and it was then that she'd begun shaking.

She'd been arrested for embezzling. She'd understood that much of what they'd told her. They'd told her a lot, but though she'd tried very hard to concentrate, most of it hadn't made any sense. She was too frightened, too stunned to take it in. The police station had been a buzz of activity, with people coming and going and not paying any attention to her, but she'd been taken through the process of being booked with a casual sort of professionalism that chilled her. She'd been fingerprinted, and her picture taken, and both questioned and advised. Someone had given her a tissue to wipe the black ink from her fingertips, and she'd devoted herself to that task. It had been of paramount importance to clean the stain from her hands.

Finally, the thought had been born that she should call Brett. He'd get her out of this nightmare. At the thought of him, she'd become calm. There was nothing that Brett couldn't handle. He'd sort out this mistake, because that was obviously all it was. But what if he weren't at his hotel? What if he were waiting at her apartment, growing more and more furious because she wasn't there? What if he thought she'd gone out with some other man-which she had, in a way.

She almost giggled, thinking of the way Detective Warnick had held her arm as they walked out to the car.

But she'd called his hotel anyway, only to be told that Mr. Rutland had given instructions that no calls were to be put through to him. Tessa tried to explain that it was an emergency, but the hotel operator couldn't be budged. In desperation, she asked for Evan Brady's room. He could take a message to Brett, if Brett was tied up with work.

Evan had answered on the second ring, and in a stumbling rush, Tessa explained who she was and that she needed to talk to Brett. There had been a long pause, then Evan had said evenly, "He knows.

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