JEDSON_The Ruins of Emblem by Cora Brent

Author:Cora Brent [Brent, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Ryan

Six Years Ago

After Pike’s bumbling attempt to warn me that the law was on my heels I was more pissed than worried.

This whole clusterfuck was just Luanne having a temper tantrum. But Luanne Brandeis didn’t rule the world. She didn’t even rule Emblem. She had no authority to slap a murder charge or any other charge on me. Plus she had to know I hadn’t killed Harry Beckett for fuck’s sake. My guess was that Luanne heard pieces of a conversation or something and later, when she was licking her wounds, she decided to see how she could use it.

Before confronting Luanne I walked around back first to take a look at the small but comfortable place where I’d grown up. It was nearly eight a.m. and my mother’s car was gone. She would already be on her way to another sixteen hour shift at the shelter. I was glad she wasn’t around. She didn’t need to hear about any of this. There was already enough distance between us since I quit school and started earning cash in less than honest ways. One of these days I’d make enough real money to move her out of a trailer in Luanne’s backyard. But right then I had to deal with the queen bitch herself.

Luanne couldn’t quite hide her surprise when she opened the door to find me standing there but she recovered in a heartbeat. She wore a black silk robe that trailed down to the floor and was open at the top to highlight her lacy negligée. Her hair was piled on her head, a glass of wine was in her left hand and her diamond earrings sparkled. She looked like she’d just stepped off the set of a freaking movie from the fifties or some shit. She smiled and invited me to take a seat at the dining room table. I didn’t sit. I waited while she eased her nimble body into a chair and crossed her long legs, allowing her robe to slip and show more skin.

I didn’t beat around the bush.

“What the fuck, Luanne? What kind of bullshit are you pulling? I heard what you’re doing, shooting your mouth off to the police that I killed Harry Beckett. It’s not fucking funny.”

A package of cigarettes was lying on the table. She picked one up and lit the end with a gold lighter. “No, that doesn’t sound funny at all, Ryan. You know what sounds even less funny?” She paused, inhaling and then exhaling dramatically. “To hear that you’ve been trying to groom an innocent teenage girl.”

I almost fell over. “What in god’s name are you talking about?”

Her eyes danced even as her expression remained artificially somber. “Leah told me everything. About the secrets you confided to her. And then she told me what you tried to do to her.”

Blood roared in my ears. “That’s insane. I would never touch Leah and as for the whole Harry Beckett business, I only tried to help the guy.” But

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