Show Me Something (Something Series Book 5) by Aubrey Bondurant

Author:Aubrey Bondurant [Bondurant, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aubrey Bondurant
Published: 2017-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Hell had nothing on the next few days.

I called the hospital immediately after hanging up the phone with my PI to learn that Rob was in critical condition and in surgery. He’d wrapped his truck around a telephone pole. His girlfriend had been a passenger and had sustained minor injuries, however he hadn’t been so lucky. Terms like: internal bleeding, ruptured spleen, and severe burns were mentioned in the doctor’s briefing to me. Apparently, the truck had caught on fire. By morning the word was simple.

Death.

Six days after receiving the call about the accident, I sat in the front row of chairs, graveside. The cemetery was small, situated outside of the town where Rob’s parents now lived, two hours from Charlotte. Dry eyed, I concentrated on my little boy sitting on my lap. He was fidgeting because what toddler understands funeral etiquette let alone this was for his father.

Since I’d arrived, I’d been caught in a whirlwind, working with the funeral home, the hospital, and my attorney, who confirmed that, yes, I remained Rob’s next of kin. His burial was modest and without police honors, in light of the charges pending against him, but I’d done my best to abide by his parents’ wishes.

The most surprising fact I learned was that his death benefits and life insurance still had me listed as the beneficiary.

Although I had no interest in the money personally, I would take anything I received and put it towards Tristan’s college fund. Unfortunately, once Rob’s mother found out, this increased the tension.

And she wasn’t the only one less than thrilled to have me here.

My eyes, shielded by dark sunglasses, slid over his twenty-one-year-old girlfriend. She sat across from me, next to Rob’s parents, glaring daggers in my direction.

After his coffin was lowered in the ground, I watched his grieving mother and father each toss in a rose. His mom swallowed hard and gave me a slight nod.

I got up, holding Tristan on my hip, and gave him a flower to toss in as well. I might not have any tears at the loss of the man who’d made my life hell for over two years, but I wouldn’t deny my little boy the right to say goodbye to his father. That’s why, despite this being rough, I was here. For Tristan. I refused to be the mother who kept her son from attending his father’s funeral.

There was a lot of sobbing from the girlfriend, who tossed her rose last and then glowered at me like I was the interloper once they started shoveling in dirt.

Goodbye, Robert, I murmured to myself, feeling sadness over the sandy-haired teenage boy I’d fallen in love with long ago. If I was going to grieve, it would be for the man I used to know, not for the prescription-drug-addicted, dirty cop who’d turned into a person I didn’t recognize.

Brian’s arm went around my shoulders, and I leaned into the strength of him. Along with Sasha, he’d insisted on being here for me today.

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