Sins of the Father by Winter Austin

Author:Winter Austin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Romance
Published: 2016-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

After today, how could that be possible?

She jolted at her phone’s buzz against the desktop. Swallowing hard, she pushed down the tension in her muscles and picked up the sleek phone. The number didn’t register. As it buzzed a second and third time, she racked her brain for who it could be. It wasn’t a local number. Better to just answer and find out.

“Hello?”

“Deputy Murdoch?” a gravelly, distorted voice asked.

“Who is this?”

“Are you looking into the disappearance of Grace Maddox?”

Her blood froze in her veins. “Who are you?”

“Answer the question,” the caller snapped.

Jolie clenched the phone to stop the shaking in her hand. Only four people knew what she was doing, and none of them would call her like this. Would they? She’d misjudged her brother and, as it had been so vividly pointed out to her tonight, her father, too. Jolie closed her eyes and willed herself to answer in a steady voice.

“Yes.”

Silence.

“What do you want?” she asked, slowly rising out of her chair.

“You’re treading on dangerous ground.”

“And so are you by harassing a police officer like this.”

A jaded chuckle tore away any bravado she’d gathered. “Deputy, this is no game. But if you insist on continuing, I’d look very hard at the former sheriff.”

“You do realize who you’re talking to?”

“I’ve seen the things that have gone on. I know you’re torn between family and new loyalties, but the decision belongs to you. Which one would you choose?”

“Since when does a civilian have the right to tell an officer how to run an investigation?”

“You’ve been given a task. A word to the wise: I’d follow through.” A click followed the statement, then nothing.

Jolie sank into her chair, letting her hand flop into her lap. The caller hadn’t threatened her, but why did it feel like she’d been given a ransom demand and if she didn’t pay up, all hell would break loose?

Placing her phone on the desk, she let her hand linger over Grace’s file. Was the key to figuring out the present sitting in the past? It nauseated her to think that Dad had something to do with any of it, but too many questions of her own pointed at him.

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