Mend by Chelle Bliss

Author:Chelle Bliss [Bliss, Chelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bliss Ink LLC
Published: 2018-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

I stalk into the police station ten minutes later, completely pissed off at my sister. Not only did she interrupt my night with Evie, but she has my mom in a complete panic. That’s what upsets me the most, what she is doing to our mother, making her worry.

I did some stupid shit in my day, but never anything bad enough that I ended up in police custody.

“Can I help you?” the officer behind the desk asks me without even looking up.

I grip my cell phone tightly, almost crushing it. “I’m here about my sister.”

“Her name?”

“Myra Nelson.”

“One moment.” He picks up the phone next to him, still staring downward. “Someone is here about Nelson.” He finally glances up at me, his eyes coming to my legs before climbing slowly up my body. “Your name?”

“Jack Nelson, her brother.”

“It’s Mr. Jack Nelson.”

“Someone will be right out,” he says as he slides the telephone back onto the base. “Please have a seat.”

Not much has changed since I came here years ago to claim my father’s personal effects after his death. The place makes me uneasy; the crushing memory of that time in my life still weighs on me.

I regret not being around when he died. Moving away for school had always been a dream, but I never realized how short life could be or how quickly it can end. When I was younger, I guess I thought of my parents as being invincible. They were always simply there. I never dreamed of something happening and taking either of them away from me.

“Jack,” Jess says as he walks into the waiting area, looking every bit the part of a small-town, asshole deputy.

I smile politely and shake his hand, because the last thing I want to do is piss off a cop, even if it’s Jess. “Hey, Jess. I heard my sister is here.”

The slow, simmering anger that I’ve had since my mother called is about to boil over if he decides to give me any shit.

“Yep.” He rocks back and forth on his feet and drags his hand through his mullet before blowing out a long breath. “Sorry to say she is.”

I ball my hand into a tight fist at my side to stop myself from having a meltdown. “What happened?”

At this point, I’m annoyed with Jess way more than I’m pissed at Myra.

“Why don’t you follow me where we can talk in private?”

“Sure,” I tell him. Small-town police departments make big deals out of the stupidest shit, and Jess is playing it up like the best of them. “Let’s walk and talk.”

He opens the door for me. “Second door on the left,” he says, following behind me. I expect to see Myra when I walk in, but it’s just a table and two chairs. I sit down, crossing my arms in front of my chest and wait as Jess closes the door and takes a seat across from me. “Where’s my sister?”

“You can see her in a few minutes. They’re finishing up with her now.

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