Secrets Hidden In The Glass: A Carter Island Novel by Cate Beauman

Author:Cate Beauman [Beauman, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cate Beauman
Published: 2017-10-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Nate closed his office door with a testy snap and swore as he rested his pounding head against the wooden frame. It was barely ten thirty a.m. and he’d already had it with the day. Callie had warned him that things would get crazy, but the last four days had gone way past insane. Ever since the media’s Monday afternoon invasion, he and his three-man crew had been rotating two-person, twelve-hour shifts; nuisance calls were at an all-time high while members of the press hunted up their stories and disrupted everyone’s daily lives in the process; and he feared Kay was going to quit on him if one more person lit up the phone lines with a ridiculous prank tip on where they could find Callie’s mother.

All in all, he’d been handling things—taking them in stride—until his terrified pregnant sister had called in to report someone lurking around on the Carter Mansion grounds at two o’clock this morning. He’d happily chased down and tackled his perp in the beach sand, eventually locking up Kenneth Pentingsworth, a reporter from Daily Truth. When Buzz Deacon, the island’s pilot who also served as the local magistrate, issued the pain-in-the-ass journalist the maximum possible fine for criminal trespassing and disturbing the peace, Nate had sent up a silent cheer. But regardless of his small victory, enough was enough.

Taking a deep breath, then two more, Nate sat at his desk and rolled his tense shoulders. He glanced at his watch, then closed his eyes, well aware that this couldn’t go on much longer. He and his deputies were going to have to rein in the press even more, but keeping the peace on the island wasn’t his only concern. Callie was putting up her walls again as she struggled to cope with being stuck in the house and the endless headlines—some of them ridiculous and others cruel. More than once she’d assured him that she was doing okay, but he knew that wasn’t true, especially after yesterday’s incident in Chicago, Illinois, where a woman resembling an older Callie Davis was chased down and physically attacked by some lunatic who’d been certain the victim was Callie’s neglectful biological mother. That had been tough to take and was the last thing anyone needed—vigilantes “helping” Callie’s cause.

“Nate,” Kay called, giving a gentle knock on the door.

“Yeah?”

The door squeaked as she opened it slowly. “This just came for you—from the Hartford Police Department.”

Nate opened one eye, looking at the FedEx overnight envelope—the disk Sanchez had let him know was on the way.

“And I thought you could use these.” She walked over and put two Extra-Strength Tylenols in his palm.

He steamed out a long breath as he sat up. “Thanks.”

She set the package on the growing stack of papers he hadn’t had the time to get to. “The mayor called just after you came down to your office. He wanted me to remind you about the meeting before the press conference.”

Nate knocked back the pills with the bottled water on his desk.

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