The Murder Club by Alexandra Ivy

Author:Alexandra Ivy [Ivy, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2023-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Kevin Hartford unlocked the back door of his grandmother’s house and shoved it open. Oddly, his feet remained glued to the patio that framed the empty pool.

For as long as he could remember, his grandmother had criticized and belittled and humiliated him on a regular basis. She’d used her money as a weapon, trying to control him as she tried to control her own son. At least until he’d put a bullet in his brain just to get away from her. And while he’d resented their love-hate relationship, she’d always seemed larger than life.

Was it any wonder that he was afraid she might be standing inside with a gin and tonic in her hand, waiting to steal another chunk of his manhood despite the fact that he’d been at her funeral less than an hour ago?

“Dammit, she’s rotting in the ground,” he muttered. “She can’t hurt you. Not anymore.”

Annoyed by the realization he continued to let the bitch live rent free in his head, Kevin forced himself to step over the threshold and enter the shadowed kitchen. He grimaced, resisting the urge to tug open the shutters. He’d gone to the effort of parking his car a block away and climbing over the back fence, nearly ripping a hole in his last decent pair of slacks. He wasn’t going to risk being spotted by one of the nosy neighbors now that he was finally inside.

The house belonged to him, of course. Or it would once the stupid lawyer got off his ass and completed the paperwork. He still didn’t understand why his grandmother would use an attorney from Pike. And worse, why she would have made the lawyer the executor of her will when Kevin could have done it all himself. He assumed it was to make his life as difficult as possible. That seemed to be the only thing that gave her pleasure.

But while the house would eventually be his, along with a sizable life insurance policy, he wanted to empty out the most valuable contents before his wife could come in and do her own inventory.

Kevin might be down on his luck but he wasn’t stupid. He knew that Lisa intended to divorce him, that the only reason she’d hung on for this long was to wait for Pauline Hartford to die. She wasn’t going to miss out on her half of the considerable inheritance. And there wasn’t a damned thing he could do about it.

A humorless laugh was wrenched from his lips as he headed into the master bedroom. It was his grandmother who’d warned him to have a prenup in place before he got married. He should have listened. Just as he should have listened when she warned him about speeding around town on his motorcycle. Five years ago he’d run the damned thing into the back of a semitruck.

The wreck had left him bedbound for two weeks, but while he’d eventually healed, he hadn’t managed to get rid of the painkillers he’d been prescribed like they were candy.

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