Should Have Known Better by Octavia Grace

Author:Octavia, Grace [Octavia, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2014-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

“Ma’am, you’re lucky she didn’t press charges,” a plump black woman with childlike spiral curls in her hair and a name tag spelling “Sperry” said to me over a desk in the CNN security center. She’d been typing all of my information into the computer in front of her and promised I’d never be let back into the building. “We have a strict security policy here. And we’ll prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.” She slid my driver’s license across the desk to me. “We have good people who work here. And we protect them at all costs.”

“Sasha doesn’t need any protecting. In fact, you all should probably work harder to protect the rest of us from her.”

“That’s none of my business,” the woman said flatly. “What is my business is why you thought you were just going to sneak past my officers and go into a dressing room to attack one of my clients. That was stupid. What if she’d pressed charges? If you went to jail? Ms. Bellamy said you have children. Did you think about them when you broke that mirror?”

“I didn’t break the mirror,” I said, but this little fact was a small defense for how I was feeling. Something had been broken. I’d been dragged by my collar down a hallway and held in a little square room like a criminal. And to all those who watched—the little Asian woman with her papers, A. J. and his confused stare, others with open mouths and pointed fingers, Sasha and her smile as she brushed her shoulders off—I was a criminal.

“She said you did—”

“She said? She said?” I snatched my driver’s license off of the desk and looked at the woman’s bare finger, where a slight tan of once-hidden skin revealed a missing ring. “Have you ever been married?”

“That’s none of your concern, ma’am.”

“None of my concern? Really?” I said. “Let me guess, he cheated on you?”

She looked off and said, “Yes, he did, but that’s still none of your—”

“And what about the woman he cheated with?” I asked. “What would you do if you knew exactly who she was and where you could find her?”

She looked back at me and I saw in her face the image of myself I’d seen in Sasha’s mirror.

“I would and did kick that whore’s ass,” she said coldly.

“Exactly—”

“But couldn’t you have gone to her house or some other place? Please, coming up in here ain’t doing nothing but bringing me more trouble. I have to suspend two officers. And explain to my boss how in the hell they let you upstairs.”

“Well, I’m sorry about that.”

“Look.” She looked into my eyes. “You just needed a better plan. One that didn’t include my job.”

“I don’t know where she lives.”

“Ahhh . . . phewww. . .” She sat back in her seat and looked at me crossly. “It’s almost time for my break.” She looked at the clock. “I have to go call my ex-husband to make sure he doesn’t have my kids around that slut he had the nerve to marry.

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