The Rite Trilogy: A Sovereign Sons Novel by A. Zavarelli & Natasha Knight

The Rite Trilogy: A Sovereign Sons Novel by A. Zavarelli & Natasha Knight

Author:A. Zavarelli & Natasha Knight [Zavarelli, A. & Knight, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub


10

Judge

I pay my mother a visit early the following evening. She greets me in the kitchen, pouring herself a large glass of wine.

“Well, look who bothered to drop by,” she says, her back to me. “You going to call your dog off now?” She’s essentially been under house arrest since Miriam disappeared and before that, since the incident with Theron, I’d been having her followed.

“Evening, mother.” I sit down without waiting for an invitation because I’m not going to get one.

She turns to me, leans against the counter with her glass in her hands. “Are you here to tell me you’ve heard from my son?”

Her disdain of me, her very clear preference for Theron even after all he’s done shouldn’t bother me, but it still stings.

“Theron will be spending time in a rehab facility. Did you know about his addiction?”

“He’s not addicted. He just enjoys life.”

“Jesus. Are you so fucking blind?”

“He’s had a hard time of it, Judge. Not that you’d know about that.”

“I know plenty.”

“Which facility? I’ll go see him.”

“I don’t think so. Sit.”

She raises her eyebrows.

I push the chair out with my foot. “Sit. Now.”

She raises her chin. “You sound exactly like him, you know that?”

My grandfather. I don’t bother to comment. She’s goading me. Instead, I wait until she’s parked herself in the seat.

“You realize I can take everything away from you, don’t you?”

“Like you did your brother?”

“My brother hurt someone.”

“Not just anyone.” She smirks, sips her coffee. “I know you’re used to getting your way but you’re wrong on this one. That woman used him and got what she deserved.”

“He beat her.”

“A sex game that got out of hand.”

It takes all I have not to leap across the table and shake some sense into her. “I’m not here to discuss Theron. I’m here to talk about Miriam.”

“Miriam? Why would you need to talk about Miriam with me? She’s the help.” So cold. And said without the slightest change to either tone or expression. My mother is an accomplished liar. But she’s also dangerous because according to Miriam, she knows Mercedes’s secret.

“I know who she is,” I say.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Theron’s father’s sister. Which makes her his aunt. Family, really, to Theron at least. And I know what you and she planned, putting Mercedes in Theron’s path—”

“What’s this about, Judge? Are you going to haul your own mother into court for trying to play matchmaker?”

“I wasn't finished.”

“Well, heaven forbid anyone interrupt you, your honor.”

“I want to know if you had anything to do with the attack on Mercedes a few days ago.”

“What attack? What kind of person do you think I am exactly?”

“You know she has a peanut allergy. Miriam would have told you that. Her fingerprints were on the EpiPen that was tampered with.” Her face loses a little color. “The beignets that caused the allergic reaction—”

“Wait a minute.” She drinks a big swallow of wine and I wonder how many she’s had. The bottle is nearly empty. “So your girlfriend ate some



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