Shadow Falls by Wendy Dranfield

Author:Wendy Dranfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781800191310
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2021-01-24T16:00:00+00:00

Forty-Three

Nate can feel Madison walking close to him as they head to his car. The rain has let up slightly, but it’s still a pain in the ass. He wants a hot shower, a change of clothes and a line of coke to calm his nerves. But that’ll have to wait.

“I’m not giving him a statement or my DNA,” says Madison.

“I know. Neither am I. Not unless Josh could walk free without it.”

She stops and pulls his arm, forcing him to stop. “Even then I won’t do it.” She looks determined.

“Are you saying you’d actually let him off the hook?”

She looks away, avoiding eye contact. “If it delays finding who framed me and reuniting me with my son, then yes. Convicting Josh is not my responsibility. If I was still a cop then of course I’d do it, but things are different now.”

Nate doesn’t know what to say. His opinion of her isn’t improving any.

She must sense his disapproval. “I know it makes me sound callous, but I can’t stay in this town, waiting around until the cops pull their shit together and go to trial. That could take a year. I can’t keep putting other people first, Nate. Look where it’s got me. No one ever puts me first! No one ever stands up for me! I’m left high and dry with no child and my career in tatters. I have nothing.”

He touches her wet sleeve. “Listen, I completely understand why you feel that way. But you know better than me that guys like Josh Sanders should not be working with children. Regardless of what they find on his computers, and how old the women are, the guy’s obsessed with weapons. A conviction would stop another summer camp employing him.”

She looks at the ground, then turns back to the house, where Morgan is on his cell phone, watching them from the front window. “Goddammit.” She slips into the passenger seat and slams her door shut.

Brody is waiting for the back door to be opened for him, but Nate can see he’s dripping wet. “Shake off first.”

The dog just stares at him.

Nate sighs. He walks to the trunk and retrieves a large towel from one of his holdalls. He approaches Brody slowly, in case he runs off, but the dog happily sits while Nate rubs him all over with the towel. He even licks Nate’s ear as his paws are dried. His thick coat is hard to dry completely, but Nate gets what he can. When he opens the back door, the dog jumps in. Then he shakes himself off, all over the upholstery.

“Dog smell alert,” he hears Madison mutter.

Nate gets in the front and slowly pulls away from Josh’s street. The condensation from their wet clothes has steamed up the car windows, and Madison’s right, it’s quickly starting to smell in here, so he opens the windows for some air. “Let’s not get hung up on any of that stuff yet—the statements, the potential court dates,” he says. “The question now is, if Josh didn’t take Jenny, then who did? He was our only suspect.

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