Ruthless (A Lawless Novel) by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Blake, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-09T04:00:00+00:00

Nine

Ellie straightened her skirt as they walked her out of the holding cell. She’d been processed hours before and then left in a cell with five other women. She’d sat there, looking at her hands, fingers stained with ink because that tissue they’d given her didn’t get rid of the residue left from her fingerprints being taken. She’d been booked, and that would follow her to her dying day. There would be a picture of her holding up a police sign with her name and number on it.

It would likely be in the news tomorrow since the bastard had reporters waiting on her as she’d been hauled out of the building.

The better to report on you, my dear. The better to send the stock price tanking . . .

“Your lawyer is here, Stratton,” the dour-faced guard explained.

For the first time in hours she felt something. Anger. It hummed through her like a fire warming her icy blood. Her lawyer? Had he really come here? Did he think she was so stupid she would keep him on?

Or had he come to explain himself? She didn’t need an explanation from him. She’d already figured it all out. The funny thing was he’d told her the first time they’d met. There was no real loyalty in the world that couldn’t be bought. He’d been Castalano’s man from the beginning. He’d been sent to seduce her and make her look like a fool. To give his boss the tools he needed to easily wrest the company from her because she was weak.

That was what her father had called her. Weak. Pathetic. If he’d had anyone else to leave his place to, he would have. She was a waste.

Maybe he had been right all those years.

“Tell him to go away.”

The guard’s brow rose. “Are you that stupid? You get one shot at talking to this guy and then you have to face that judge on your own. You really going to send his ass away? Because from where I’m standing, princess, you need all the help you can get.”

She stared at the door she was supposed to walk through. “I didn’t ask for my lawyer to come here. My lawyer is kind of the reason I am here.”

The guard frowned. “Seriously? Because Henry Garrison is known for getting rich people out of jail. Not putting them in.”

Henry Garrison? “Not Riley Lang?”

“Princess, I don’t know who that is. I do know that the most expensive criminal defense attorney in Manhattan is sitting inside that room waiting for you and you’re out here. Do you like bologna sandwiches that much?”

She didn’t need any more prompting. Lily must have done it. Oh, she was so going to get a raise when they got out of this.

Because she was going to get out of this.

As she’d sat in her cell she’d realized she had two choices. She could give in and let that man take everything from her. She could be the weak-willed girl her father had always seen. Soft and too compassionate for her own good.

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