Killing Her Softly by Beverly Barton

Author:Beverly Barton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction, Detective and Mystery Stories, Police, Romantic Suspense Fiction, Legal, Crime, Romance, American, Tennessee, Suspense, Lawyers, General, Serial Murderers, Suspense Fiction
ISBN: 9780821776872
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2005-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

Annabelle laid the file folder on the coffee table in front of the sofa. Taking a deep breath, she leaned her head back and closed her eyes. Although the Powell Agency's report was brief—only three pages—it was a precise, condensed version of Quinn Cortez's life from birth to the present. A poor kid who grew up on the streets of San Antonio, a half-Mexican delinquent who stayed in trouble from the age of ten until he wound up in Houston and was arrested for vagrancy. He'd been sixteen at the time. A runaway with no place to go. A renowned Houston judge, Harwood Brown, who had a reputation for saving teens in trouble, had helped Quinn turn his life around in a few short years. After law school and passing the bar, he'd been a street-smart, power and money hungry young lawyer, willing to do whatever it took to succeed. And succeed he had. He was considered one of the top criminal lawyers in the country and his astronomical fees had made him a multimillionaire.

Quinn had won ninety-five percent of his cases and had a reputation that made other lawyers quake in their boots. And on a personal level, he was known as a Latin lover, a lady-killer, a love-'em-and-leave-'em kind of guy. He'd never been married or engaged. Not even close.

So this was the man she had chosen to believe in, to trust, to stand by his side against all odds. What made her think that he wasn't using her as he had used so many other women?

"Are you okay?" Quinn asked as he rose from the chair across the room and laid the list he'd written out for Griffin on the desk.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. "How many women are there on that list?"

He picked it up, walked across the room and handed it to her. When she took the list, her hand quivered just the slightest bit.

She glanced at the sheet of paper. Five names in all. Five lovers since January of last year. A hysterical giggle bubbled up inside her. She'd had three lovers in the past eleven years. Hell, she'd had a total of three lovers in her whole life and one of those—the only one who had counted—had been her fiancé, a man she had dearly loved. That giddy chuckle inside her erupted suddenly, vocalizing as a squeaky laugh.

"Annabelle . . . honey . . . ?"

"You don't owe me any explanations. You've been completely honest with me and I appreciate that fact." After handing the list back to him, she clasped her hands together and held them in her lap, then stared downward avoiding making direct eye contact with him. "I'm going to return the favor. You need to under-stand something about me." She paused gathering up her courage. "I hate myself for being attracted to you. You're not the type of man I would choose to become involved with and even though I do believe you didn't kill Lulu, I don't entirely trust you.

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