The Parolee: A Taboo Dark Romance by Kate Rivenhall

Author:Kate Rivenhall [Rivenhall, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Torin had told me he would meet me at the bakery early that morning.

Two days left, I thought.

What was I going to do?

During the last year I had spent most of my days and sometimes even much of the night here in this little space. I had worked hard to make this place a thriving coffee shop & bakery. I was proud of it. Right?

Or is Drew the one who is proud of it? I thought.

I didn’t want to be alone with my intrusive thoughts, so I turned on the television just as the early morning news anchor was announcing the headlines.

“There was a murder overnight at the halfway house for released felons,” the news anchor was saying, her perky voice at odds with what she was reporting. “36-year-old Dave Kowalczyk was found sometime this morning in a dumpster a few streets over. Police are investigating. The general public is not thought to be in any danger, but please contact our departments if you have any information on the crime.”

Shit shit shit.

I couldn’t mistake that face. That long, stringy hair, the tattoos.

It was the same man who had threatened me yesterday.

And today he was dead.

My heart began to pound painfully in my chest, and I heard a sharp rap on the front door of the bakery. Assuming it was my brother, I hurried out of the kitchen and past my little yellow tables, ready to give him a piece of my mind.

But I stopped uncertainly.

It was Torin’s parole officer Vick.

I opened the door numbly, the blood rushing so fast to my ears that I felt dizzy.

“Hello, Miss Reilly,” Vick said, stepping inside the bakery. “Can I ask you a few questions about your brother Torin?”

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