Shattered Witness by DeStefano Anna

Author:DeStefano, Anna [DeStefano, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Her Forgotten Betrayal
Published: 2014-11-11T08:00:00+00:00

Shaw shook her head.

She’d been doing that a lot and felt childish. Clueless. And hunted. Someone was honest-to-God stalking her?

The first investigators who’d interviewed her in the hospital had wanted to know mostly the same things as Cole. Did she have any idea why she was attacked? Why at Cassidy Global, in the middle of the night, and why was there no evidence at the scene? What had made Shaw the target instead of her other corporate officers? She’d had no answers to give them then, just as there was nothing to tell Cole now. Including why someone might have tracked her all the way up here to take another crack at her.

Or at least to go after her water heater.

She wanted to shove the endless search for answers from her mind, as she had when the authorities in Atlanta had decided not to continue actively investigating her shooting. But now she didn’t dare, not if someone was really trying to spook her or hurt her or whatever he was trying to do to her in the mansion.

If Cole hadn’t been sitting beside her while she was forced to accept the truth she’d suspected deep down all this time, she wasn’t certain what she’d have done. But there he was, caring for her in ways—like making her tea—that she guessed were as foreign to him as repeatedly having to soothe a hysterical female. She gazed back at her former friend. Her former lover. He felt more like a bodyguard now, positioned like an impenetrable wall between her and whatever was going on.

She lifted her tea without responding to his question. Her grip shook so much, his hand came up to steady hers as she drank. Then he took the mug and set it in front of her. She dropped her head into her free hand. He lifted the other one from its ice bath and gently dried it.

“Everything’s spinning,” she mumbled.

She had to call Dawson. She should keep talking to Cole until she recalled something that would help the authorities get to the bottom of what was going on. She needed to fight harder to get her memory back, now more than ever. But her mind was turning to mush. Then the world itself was tilting.

Strong arms helped her stand. Not bothering to censor herself, she leaned against Cole, needing the sense of belonging he’d brought into her solitary life.

“Let’s get you to bed,” he said, lips she knew she’d dream about at her temple. “You’re crashing, and I need a better look at the house. But I don’t want to take you back to your room. Where were you going to have me stay?”

“Downstairs.” She pointed in the direction of the first-floor guest room. Then she added, chagrined, “There are plenty of rooms upstairs near me, but I didn’t trust myself. You feel too good every time I touch you. Why do you feel so good . . . ?”

She was babbling. She’d regret it later. But she closed

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