Justice by Piper Davenport

Author:Piper Davenport [Davenport, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-26T18:30:00+00:00

“Macey?” I called as I pulled on a pair of shorts. She’d slipped out of my bed more than twenty minutes ago, and I’d expected her back by now. I dragged my hands through my hair and frowned when she didn’t answer me. “Mace?”

I walked into the living room and found her hunkered down against the wall, her head buried in her knees and her body shaking. I rushed to her, kneeling beside her. “Baby? What’s wrong?” She didn’t answer me right away. “Mace, honey, you’re scaring me. Tell me what’s happened.”

She raised her head, her face ashen. “I… I…” she handed me a piece of paper I hadn’t seen her holding.

I looked at letters that had been cut out of what looked like magazines and newspapers. It read: Well, hi there, pretty.

“Where did you get this?” I asked, trying to keep the rage from my voice.

“It…” she swallowed.

“It’s okay, baby. Take your time.”

“It was on my windshield when I came out of work yesterday. I… I thought it was some kind of flyer. You know, like, come take my yoga class or something. I forgot about it, but I was looking through my purse for my migraine stuff and the envelope was in there and I figured I’d just see what it was before I recycled it.”

“Did you take your meds?”

“No. I got sidetracked and I got sidetracked because the note was so fricking unexpected. Brock killed him. That information wasn’t public, at least it wasn’t supposed to be, and—”

“Breathe, Mace.” I waited until she did and then squeezed her arm. “Did you notice anything else? Were there flyers on any of the other cars?”

“I didn’t see any.” Macey closed her eyes. “It’s what… it’s what he said when… right before…”

“I know, baby.”

Her eyes flew open. “What do you mean, you know? Is that an, I know because you’re being sweet, or an I know because you really do know?”

“I really do know,” I said. “I read the file.”

“No!” Macey shook her head. “You weren’t supposed to do that! I told Brock you should never see it. He promised me.”

I didn’t comment as I went to her purse and opened it to look for her meds. I found them and peeled open a square, kneeling beside her again. “Here.”

“Thanks.” She took the pill and set it under her tongue.

“Come on. I’m gonna call the guys and see what we can do.” I rose to my feet again and held my hand out.

“How?”

“Well, I’m going to use this new contraption called a telephone,” I retorted in a southern drawl.

“Dallas,” she admonished.

She stared up at me, her deep blue eyes even darker filled with tears and my heart broke. “Macey. We’re going to figure this out.”

“No, I mean, how did you find out? You weren’t supposed to see the report.”

“Why, honey?”

“Because then you’ll know what he did. You’ll see me differently.”

I hunkered beside her again. “How will I see you differently?”

“Broken. Used. Dirty,” she whispered, dropping her forehead to her knees.

“Mace? Look at me.

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