Wine and Punishment by Sarah Fox

Author:Sarah Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

My recently consumed breakfast churned in my stomach.

“Someone killed Eric with a sword?” I said, my voice fading with the last word.

Grayson grabbed my elbow. “Maybe you should sit down.”

I stared at him, still shocked by the news, and surprised as well by the concern that had replaced the ice in his eyes.

Pulling myself together, I shook my arm free of his grasp. “I’m not going to faint. Why do you always think that?” I pulled my cardigan close around me and focused on staying as steady as possible. There was no way I’d admit to Grayson that I really was a bit shaky. “Did you do it?” I asked him. “Did you kill Eric?” I hated the faint tremble beneath my words.

Grayson’s eyes iced over again. Without answering, he shifted his attention to the muscular man in dark clothes standing by the front door. “Jason!”

The man uncrossed his arms and strode over to us. Judging by the way he towered over me, he had to be at least six-foot-four. He spared me only a flick of a glance before focusing on Grayson.

“Problem?” he asked in a deep voice.

Grayson nodded my way without looking at me. “Please escort Ms. Parker from the property.”

“My name is Sadie Coleman, as you know perfectly well,” I said through clenched teeth.

Grayson walked off, not even acknowledging that I’d spoken, disappearing into the house a second later. I glared after him.

“Ma’am?” Jason said, the single word somehow incredibly intimidating.

I shifted my glare to him but couldn’t keep it up in the face of his imposing figure.

Not wanting to get tossed from the property, I started off along the driveway, although not without a huff of annoyance. I walked quickly, but Jason easily kept pace with me, each of his strides almost twice as long as my own.

“He did that on purpose, didn’t he?” I said. “He knows my name.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

I eyed Jason as we walked around the bend in the driveway. “That’s a bit immature, don’t you think?”

“He did find you sneaking around his house yesterday,” Jason said, his expression remaining impassive.

Warmth rushed to my cheeks. “He told you about that?”

“I’m in charge of security here.”

I stopped short as something clicked in my head. Jason paused one stride ahead of me, his dark eyes never shifting away from me.

“Nosey Parker? Is that what he meant? Because I don’t think he meant Dorothy!”

One corner of Jason’s mouth gave the slightest twitch. It was enough to tell me I was right.

“That . . .” I couldn’t think of a word sufficient to sum up what I thought of Grayson Blake in that moment. “Oh, for Poe’s sake!”

Jason cleared his throat, and I got the message, resuming my trek along the driveway.

Although I was tempted to rant about Grayson the whole way down to Creekside Road, something stopped me. Maybe it was the fact that I was at least somewhat deserving of the name Grayson had called me, not that I would have admitted that to anybody.

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