Baby by Niles Adele

Author:Niles, Adele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Adele Niles
Published: 2019-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Jake

I couldn’t believe what had just happened. Not only did I run into the hot convict, who I thought I’d never see again, but she was being stalked by a rapist. And at the weirdest time and place, too. I’d have to keep an eye out for her; she seemed to be a magnet for trouble.

“I believe you,” I told her seriously. “Actually, I did a little digging into your case.”

“You did?” she said, surprised. She was lifting her fork to her mouth but paused halfway. “Why?”

“Oh, I don’t know…not many convicts bother to claim innocence once they’ve already made it to the parole stage. You kind of stuck in my mind.” I eyed her up and down, hoping she’d realize that I’d been thinking about her in more ways than one.

I watched her shiver. She’s into me, I thought, pleased.

She blushed.

“Well, that’s nice of you,” she said. “But I guess it doesn’t really matter if you believe me or not, does it? I mean, I’ve already been convicted. I’ll have this stain on my record for the rest of my life.”

“Not necessarily,” I said. “Can you tell me a little more about the events surrounding your arrest? Did you see anybody strange lurking around?” I was shifting into business mode, my police questions coming out automatically.

“Well, not really. I just know that, for all his flaws, Trey—that’s my ex—would never do drugs. And he definitely wouldn’t have had a kilo of cannabis in his car. It just doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know if it was a mistake, or he was framed, or what. But however it got there, I don’t think it had anything to do with me, really. I mean, it was Trey’s car, and I hardly ever drove it.”

“So why were you driving it that day?” I pressed. This information hadn’t been in the report.

“Trey’s mom was sick, so he flew out to see her one last time. I was supposed to meet him with his car since the drive would’ve taken too long for him to get there in time, and then we were going to drive back home together. But I never made it across the state border, obviously.”

“Did Trey visit his mother very often?” I asked.

“No, not really,” she replied.

“And did he go out of town a lot for any other reason?”

“Not that I can think of. The last time he went anywhere before that was on a weekend trip with me, but that was years ago.”

“Did anybody know you were going out of town?”

“Why does any of that matter?” Her forehead scrunched up in puzzlement.

“I just think it’s interesting that there happened to be a kilo of drugs in Trey’s car the one time his car, whether he was driving or not, was about to cross a border where drug checks were being conducted. Don’t you?”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. Now that I think of it, Trey had just gotten his car cleaned and detailed earlier that week, so there’s no way the drugs were in there before that.

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