Sweet Tea and Secrets by Nancy Naigle

Author:Nancy Naigle [Naigle, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-08-15T03:50:05+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Pounding echoed through the room. Jill sat up, startled. Am I dreaming? Her hands reached for anything familiar in the darkness.

“Sheriff’s department. Open up!” The deep voice boomed through the night, then the front door slammed against the wall.

Jill squealed and cowered back into the couch.

A light flooded over her face, blinding her.

She shielded her eyes. “Clyde,” she yelled. But Clyde was still at the kennel. “No.”

“On your feet.”

“Wait. Who are you? What do you want?” she cried.

“Hands where I can see them,” the voice ordered.

She couldn’t see a thing past the bright light.

“What?” Jill reached for the lamp on the end table.

“Freeze.”

She threw her arms in the air, eyes wide and darting.

“Anyone else in the house?”

“No.” Jill splayed her fingers wider.

The unexpected guest flipped the living room light switch.

Jill squinted, her eyes adjusting as slowly as she was to the situation at hand. “Just me. This is my house. Wh-who are you?”

“We got a report of a strange car at this location. I’m going to need to see some identification.”

“What?”

“Identification ma’am. Where’s your ID?”

“Um. I don’t have it. It’s in the car…I think. My purse? I’m not sure.”

The officer stepped forward and twisted her arms behind her cuffing them together at the wrist. “Just until we sort this out, ma’am. This house was broken into earlier in the week. Know anything about that?”

“Who are you? Where’s Scott Calvin?” Jill swung around, trying to understand her predicament. “Am I under arrest?”

The officer snickered. “Know the sheriff, do you?”

“Yes. Call him,” she pleaded.

“So, you’ve been in trouble with the law before.” He spun her around and pushed her to a seated position on the couch.

“No. I’ve never been arrested. That’s not how I know him. I live here.” Footsteps hurried across the front porch. How many of them are there? Did they send the whole SWAT team after me? Was Bradley behind this?

Garrett ran into the room. “Thank God. Jill. I thought that was your voice. Are you okay?”

“What are you doing here? What’s going on?” Jill asked.

“Where’s your car, and who does that Ford belong to?”

“Mr. Malloy, please step aside. We asked you to stay outside.” The officer gestured him back toward the door.

Garrett hesitated to step back and the officer gestured him out of the room again as he turned his attention back to Jill.

“Ma’am. Is that your car out front?”

“No…Yes…”

“Well, which is it?” the deputy ordered.

“Well, no. The car isn’t mine, but I’m driving it.”

“Ma’am, who is the car registered to?”

She tried to push her bangs from her face with her shoulder. “I don’t know. Melanie and Vernon Hines, or their daughter Lindy, maybe.”

The officer eyed her suspiciously. “Anything we should know about in the vehicle ma’am?”

She shook her head.

“Firearms? Drugs?”

“No, of course not,” she said. “Garrett. Help me!”

“How much have you had to drink? You seem kind of woozy there.” The deputy clicked his flashlight and danced it back and forth in front of her eyes.

“I was sleeping.” When did the county hire this yahoo? With that northern accent he sure isn’t from around here.

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