Their Angel's Cry: A totally compelling and jaw-dropping crime thriller (Chief Maggie Riley Book 2) by Shannon Hollinger

Author:Shannon Hollinger [Hollinger, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803148878
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2023-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

42

MAGGIE

Steve sounded weird. Almost like he wasn’t happy to hear from me. A variety of scenarios run through my mind, starting with my cop thoughts—is he guilty, hiding something, up to no good—and segueing into my woman thoughts—is he guilty, hiding something, up to no good?

He certainly has the opportunity, alone in a strange town, and the means, an anonymous motel room, but does he have the motive? Steve isn’t like that. He wouldn’t risk what we have just to see if he could get away with it. He’s happy in our relationship.

Only, as I think all these things, I wonder if I’m really right. How many other women have thought the same about their partners only to be proven wrong? There’s no denying that things have been different between us lately. Strange. Tense. Something’s changed, and I’m not sure either of us quite knows what it is—or what to do to fix it.

But even if I am wrong, it’s not like I can do anything about it across all the miles between us. And it’s not like I haven’t had my life implode on me before. I’ve survived worse.

The loss of my baby brother. My career. My parents.

There wasn’t even a falling out. I seem to have simply ceased to exist to them. Once Brandon was gone, so, apparently, was any desire they’d ever had to be a family.

Is it possible that, like Justice’s parents, they’d be relieved to hear of my death?

We haven’t spoken in years. They don’t seem to mind. Why would they? It’s their choice. And though I thought I had gotten over it, ever since Steve and I got engaged, it’s been bothering me again. What would the wedding be like?

Me with Sue and Margot and a scant handful of other misfits on my side, and Steve with, what? A whole church full of people? Would we even get married in a church? It seems like this is something we should have talked about by now. Poor Steve doesn’t know what he’s getting into.

Or maybe I’m wrong, and he does. I was mostly honest when I told him about my past, yet he still chose to fight his way through the layers of scar tissue and hurt that shrouded my heart until he found his way inside. It wasn’t easy progress to make. And I can’t imagine him being callous enough to risk it lightly. Even if he hasn’t been entirely honest with me.

Because that’s a game we’re both playing. I know he’s hiding something. But I’m the one who outright lied. If his reason is half as good as mine, well, who am I to judge? And all that has to do with our pasts, anyways. This is our present. Our future.

I decide that I’m worrying for nothing, I think. Besides, I have my hands full enough at the moment with what’s right here in front of me. Quite literally.

I squat to give the two squirming bodies rubs, then buy myself a few free minutes by feeding them.

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