Never Let You Go by Erin Healy

Author:Erin Healy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

{ chapter 19 }

Lexi’s hands shook as she poured the rock crystals into the toilet, then dropped the plastic bag in too. A little water had splashed onto the rim, and she wiped it down with a piece of toilet paper. She flushed, then opened the window and turned on the fan and flushed two more times. The street value of the tiny packet probably would have taken care of a few bills, a thought that sickened Lexi almost as much as the existence of the bag itself.

She tore apart her bedroom looking for more. One anonymous tip to the authorities was all it would take for them to sweep through here with dogs to smell what she couldn’t see. She imagined them barking at light fixtures and floor vents and dusty ceiling fans, then receiving rewards while their handlers slapped cuffs around her wrists and dragged her off, away from Molly. Lexi wondered how much time Ward would have had to hide more yesterday while Alice let him wander the house. She wondered if she could afford to wait until her mom left the house or Molly went back to school before she searched the other rooms.

She had a little less than week, if Ward stuck to his word. A week before Norm’s hearing, a week to talk Grant into producing twenty-five thousand dollars. This truth calmed her a little. Warden was only showing her that he was serious. It was likely that there were more drugs hidden around the little apartment in places she’d never think to look.

For now, she decided, she would spend her energies on getting that cash.

Lexi leaned against the edge of the bathroom sink trying to figure out next steps. Ward’s demand that she get the money from Grant still didn’t make any sense. How was it that he thought she had more influence over Grant than he did?

She could make a plea directly on Molly’s behalf. Did he want contact with her badly enough to pay for it?

The implications of that arrangement frightened Lexi.

Ward’s accusation played itself over in her mind. You should have chosen me. Even this made little sense. Ward had never made a play for her that she could recall. Unless she was so blinded by her attraction to Norman that she never noticed it. That possibility was unbelievable to her now, repulsive even. Clearly, she’d been blinded to so much more during those months. So, even though she couldn’t make sense of Ward’s motive, if he meant what he said, he would take pains to make her life difficult, rather than Grant’s.

How was she going to talk Grant out of twenty-five thousand dollars? Maybe it didn’t all have to come from him. Maybe none of it had to come from him.

There was Alice.

Lexi sighed.

Her mother. Lexi would have to tell her some of what was going on. The fleeting thought that she could talk Alice into taking Molly away from Crag’s Nest for a few days crossed her mind. If only Molly were more mobile.

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