Unveiled by Christine Davis

Author:Christine Davis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Regional & Cultural, Psychological Thrillers, Parenting & Relationships, Dramas & Plays, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Psychological, Parenting, Dysfunctional Relationships, Suspense, African, Thrillers, Family Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2010-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

What book? Melony was just about to delve into that mystery when they were interrupted.

“Time’s up,” the guard growls only seconds before banging on the steel door demanding entry.

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Crystal stayed late at work with an excuse to work on staff evaluations, but the truth was she didn't want to face another lonely night. Dates were as simple as picking up her cell phone and speed dialing any of seven different numbers, but she was restless and not in the mood for pacifying some kid ten years her junior. Young men made great lovers but they required so much work. At forty-two she had the body of a twenty-five year old. Light-skinned with purchased hazel brown eyes, she was an average beauty who could be make-upped into gorgeous. Men had always found her 5’7 frame sexy, and like her quick legal mind, she used her body as a weapon when necessary. In quiet corners it was whispered that she had not just fought and clawed her way to top of Philadelphia’s law enforcement, but also slept up a few levels. Along the way, she’d married a “boy”, ten year younger and foolishly allowed him privy to all of her bad habits. When they divorced last year she paid heftily for the mistake, would never repeat it again. To say she was bitter would diminish her thoughts on the matter, and minimize the nights she paced her condominium in a blood thirsty rage. If she could have thought of the perfect murder, he and the bouncing twenty-one year old who now shared his bed would have been the first victims, but as District Attorney she recognized that there was no such thing. The best one could do was to take their chances and hope for the best. Crystal understood taking chances, living with hope, she had spent a lot of time doing both. It was her tendency to do both things which drew her into the Doe case.

After the office had gone silent and the last staff member had finally given up on out-lasting her and finally gone home she had pulled her small sports car out of the underground and sped ten blocks to a very lucrative un-licensed casino located in Philadelphia’s famous Chinatown.

She had a weakness for gambling. Craving would be closer to the truth, and when night fell she slinked out, vampirish in a way, to suck on the arm of the iron bandit with a frightening desperation. Most of the friends in and out of Crystal's life preferred liquor, or prescription pills, but gambling was her drug of choice, her numbing against broken relationships and a barely civil relationship with her parents. A nasty habit that grew while she attended expensive boarding schools with the daughters of Senators, judges and even one President, she loved the revenge of taking their money, using it as payback for icy attitudes and blocked lunch tables when she tried to join in. No, they wouldn't befriend her, but they loved to sneak into her room well past lights out to drink cheap beers and toss around hundred dollar bills.

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