Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid

Author:Penny Reid
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Cipher-Naught
Published: 2021-03-01T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

*CLETUS*

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET

“Why haven’t they scheduled her arraignment yet?” I couldn’t stop pacing.

Pacing. Pacing. Pacing.

I’d been pacing nonstop for twenty-four hours. If I’d been in a different frame of mind, the frame of mind that entertained worries for anyone or anything else other than Jennifer, I might’ve been concerned for my mental health.

As it was, I was not, and did not, and I couldn’t stop pacing.

“The prosecutor gets three days to decide whether or not to press charges, Cletus.”

“I know, Jethro.”

He held his hands up and watched me like he was concerned for my mental health. “I’m not going to tell you to calm down, but wearing a hole in the pavement outside the station isn’t going to help. You need to come home. Let the lawyers—”

“Don’t.” I sliced a hand through the air. “Don’t say, ‘Let the lawyers handle it.’”

Boone wouldn’t let me ride with them in the elevator, so I’d taken the stairs. I’d followed their car all the way to the station. Beau and Shelly had gone out and rented an RV so we could spend the night in the parking lot. Jethro had arrived at 6:34 AM with coffee and breakfast. He’d even achieved the correct ratios of apple cider vinegar, coffee, and molasses. If I hadn’t been so busy pacing and going out of my mind with worry, I would’ve been impressed.

Jethro leaned back against his car where Beau and Shelly were also leaning, watching me pace. Drew and Billy were inside the station, trying to strong-arm the sheriff into allowing me a visit. All attempts thus far yesterday and this morning had been denied, as I suspected they would be.

Flo had explained several times that, since I wasn’t her husband, I had no rights to her. And she had none to me. Never before had I wished as fervently that we’d already eloped. But Billy, her congressman, had been allowed to see her. He’d said she was in good spirits. I wanted to strangle someone.

Sienna, currently at the homestead watching Benjamin, had called her legal teams from LA and New York. A swarm of lawyers would be converging on our present location any minute. Diane had sent her legal team, and they were inside already, but Sienna assured me that her people were the most ridiculously expensive, poised to argue lawyers she could find. God bless her.

My dear sister, trying a different approach, was right this minute bringing Jackson James a baked good of some sort. Never before had I been so thankful for her influence over blond law enforcement. Hopefully, it worked.

Since I could do nothing but think and pace, I decided I’d figure a way to break her out of jail, should the need arise. I knew I could count on Evans to help. Now I just needed to figure out a way to ensure he had transport duty to the courthouse—

“Your phone is ringing, Cletus.

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