Two Years Later by Jones Lisa Renee

Author:Jones, Lisa Renee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Published: 2018-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Reid

I walk into the conference room where Debbie is standing at the window. She turns and her lips part as if she expected some fifty-something man with a pot belly and a weak attitude. I shut the door and walk to the table, pressing my fingers to the desk. “What do you want?” I ask, sizing her up. She’s pretty, brunette, and all belly.

“What I deserve,” she says. “What my baby deserves. To be taken care of.”

“How many men have you fucked in the past nine months?”

“It’s his baby,” she snarls, leaning on the table to face off with me.

My lips twitch. She’s easily agitated. That works for me. “How many men have you fucked in the past two years?”

“Why? You want to join the list?” she challenges.

“There’s a list,” I say. “Interesting.”

“He’s the father!” she shouts at me, her cheeks flushing.

“How many times did you fuck Reese Summer?”

“Many.”

“When and where?” I ask.

“My place,” she says. “Often.”

“There are security cameras in your building. I checked. So you’ll be able to prove that. Make a call and get the videos.”

“I have no rights to that footage.”

“Offer the landlord a few perks and I’m sure you can work it out.”

“You’re such a prick.”

My lips twitch. “I love it when you talk dirty, sweetheart. It tells me all about you. I’ll be back in fifteen minutes.” I head for the door.

“Come back here, asshole!”

I exit the office and leave her there to simmer and panic. She doesn’t have control. She won’t ever have control. I do. I have control. I will end this for my sister.

***

Cat

Court is delayed, and we aren’t told why. We just wait and wait and I start to worry the threats from Debbie escalated in some way, perhaps by way of an accomplice, and Reese had to delay the return. Thirty minutes into the wait, my phone buzzes with a text and I discretely check it to read a message from Reese: The judge is the delay. We don’t know why. I didn’t want you to think it was something else.

I’m touched and relieved that he’s thought of me, but I don’t want to feed his need to worry about me either which is why I refrain from asking what he knows about Reid and Debbie. He’d tell me if he knew anything. Thank you for telling me. That’s weird with the judge, I type instead. Is he with the prosecutor?

I’m told no, Reese replies. I’ll let you know if I get an update on anything.

I show the messages to Gabe and his brow furrows. “Maybe he has a woman in his chamber,” he jokes.

I scowl. “Did you really just say that?”

He nudges me. “Laugh, little sis.”

I laugh. “Okay. There. Happy?”

Finally, Reese and his team enter the courtroom and my nerves about what was happening before he entered, linger on the personal. Did Debbie do something else?

“He’ll be fine,” Gabe says, from beside me, as Reese settles at his table in the courtroom. “He’s a pro and he knows you’re safe.

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