Twisted Whispers by Sheri Lewis Wohl

Author:Sheri Lewis Wohl [Wohl, Sheri Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626394599
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2015-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

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“Tell me that one more time,” Thea said to Grant as she sat at the table in her kitchen, an untouched mug of coffee growing cold in front of her.

Tears were running down Grant’s pale cheeks, and his head was in his hands. “I couldn’t sleep and I couldn’t sit around doing nothing, so I started tearing the house apart. It was crazy to act that way but I couldn’t seem to stop.”

“You found the cell phone?”

“Yes, under the mattress.” His words were barely audible.

“Jesus, Grant.”

“She was cheating on me, and I guess she was still trying to keep it secret even though I was cheating on her too. It was so stupid. I knew what she was doing and she knew about me too. We were seriously messed up.”

She rubbed the bridge of her nose with her thumb and forefinger. How did she not see what was happening to her sister’s marriage? She knew things were far from perfect, just not quite how far. Again the knifing pain sliced through her heart at the realization Alida hadn’t come to her. All along she thought they were as close as ever, but Grant was being straight with her. There was no point in lies.

Grant was running his hands through his hair, and his red-rimmed eyes were still filled with tears. How she wanted to hate him and blame him for what happened. It wasn’t in her, and her anger would be misplaced. The marriage was obviously in big trouble, and the story most decidedly had two sides. He owned up to his, and the pain he was experiencing now was as real as it got. He, like Thea, was hurting to his soul. The betrayal and lies, those were things to deal with later. Right now, they had bigger issues to concentrate on.

“Okay, Grant, this might at least give us something to go on. Have you called the sheriff’s department yet?”

He closed his eyes and shook his head. “I couldn’t.”

The small phone lay in the center of the table between them, and she resisted the urge to pick it up and dig into the call history. She stared at it for a moment, then looked over at him. “What do you mean, you couldn’t? For God’s sake, Grant, this is huge.”

His words were heavy with weariness. “Yes, it is huge, but I don’t know if I can handle what’s inside it, and they’ll probably start looking at me as a suspect again.”

She let out a big breath and counted to ten. Calmly she said, “It doesn’t matter how you feel, and that’s the sorry truth of it. Think about it, Grant. This might lead them straight to a person of interest. You? Well, you have to realize they’re going to be interested in you with or without a little girlfriend on the side. They always look at those closest—” the word victim flashed in her mind but no way in hell was that word passing her lips “—first.”

He didn’t seem to notice the hitch, or if he did, he wasn’t going there either.

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