Jennifer L. Jordan - Kristin Ashe Mystery 2 - Existing Solutions by Jennifer L. Jordan

Author:Jennifer L. Jordan [Jennifer L. Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781883523695
Google: iLwYAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 1883523699
Publisher: Spinsters Ink
Published: 2006-02-01T03:00:00+00:00

"Well, I still have to tell you — that's the whole point of why you asked me to do this." I took a deep breath. "Let me start by saying I never liked your father, not from the second I met him. He's an evil man. Every time you weren't looking, he shot me hateful sneers."

She stopped peering out the window long enough to meet my gaze and raise a challenge. "Don't you think you're a little paranoid?"

"Maybe, but then I visited Chase Weston who runs the Denver Rape Crisis Center, and she had nothing but bad things to say about the man. He rapes women every day, Destiny. Just in a different way. He assaults them with religion and hypocrisy. After the worst experience of their lives, they come to his little center for help, and most walk out more disturbed than when they came in. They take tests to see if they're telling the truth, and many fail. They sit in sterile rooms with naked portraits of Jesus hanging behind them. They're encouraged, or more like forced, to bear children if they have the terrible misfortune of becoming pregnant. This is not a good place, and Richard Freeman is not a good man, trust me."

Destiny's eyes stretched wide before they contracted into a hard glare. "How did you become an expert on the Monarch Center? Because you listened to Chase Whoever? I've met that woman before, and I wasn't very impressed with her. Why are you taking what she's saying at face value, anyway? Because you have a crush on her? Maybe she's just jealous that my father's rape center is more successful than hers. Did you ever think about that? Why don't you go visit the place yourself?" she asked churlishly.

"I went there Monday."

That seemed to throw her, but not for long. She fixed a laser stare at me. "You're such a genius, you gathered all this in one visit?"

This lunch was not going like I had planned.

Destiny was buried beneath a pile of Richard Freeman's lies, and I didn't know how to shovel them off. I panicked and did what I promised myself I would never do.

I started to recount details of the rape scene.

"There was never consent between your mother and father, Destiny. And your mother isn't a liar. Your father is. He ripped her shirt. He bit her breasts — "

I hadn't even begun to warm up when she cut me short by rising. She slung her coat over her shoulder and muttered, "I've got better things to do than sit here and listen to this. Have a nice weekend, Kris."

Dazed, I watched her march out of the restaurant. When I regained equilibrium, I threw down a twenty for food that hadn't arrived and hurried after her.

"Listen, Destiny—"I began after I caught up and grabbed her by the arm.

"No, you listen to me!" she snarled. "I'm sick of this shit. Just because you have issues with your father doesn't mean everyone does."

It took every ounce of my willpower not to hit her.

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