Broken Promises by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Eckhart, Lorhainne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989698570
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart

Chapter Twelve

Reine was now sitting in a chair with her hands cuffed behind her back because Pete had demanded Marcus arrest her. She had watched in horror as he pulled his cuffs from his pouch, turned her around, and made her put her hands on her head, fingers linked, as he patted her down and searched her pockets, pulling out her key, the granola bar Suzanne had handed her, and the twelve dollars and twenty-six cents she had left after buying the day-old sandwich. It was all on Pete’s desk now, and her pockets were still inside out. Her legs were shaking.

She wondered if they seriously thought she’d be walking around with the old woman’s jewelry in her pockets. How the hell had she managed to land in this hot water when she never should have been left alone in the Hirst house anyway? She was Ivy’s assistant, doing all the grunt work and dirty jobs the nurses didn’t do. Anger was the only emotion going through her now.

This was a nightmare. How? Why? She’d been out of jail for only a week.

She could hear Pete still yelling, feeling the force of his rage in the accusations he yelled down at her. Where is it? You stupid little fucking bitch. You steal from one of my clients? It’s the end of you. She knew Pete was a friend of Manny’s, and she’d expected Manny there instead of Marcus, though, as she pulled in a breath and sat uncomfortably, staring at her things on the desk, she knew it was only a matter of time before he showed up, too.

It was so damn official now, the way Marcus was talking to Pete just outside the office, but Reine had stopped listening to the back and forth. Valerie had called to say the old woman’s jewelry had been picked through, but she didn’t know where to begin in wondering why. There had to be an explanation.

The old woman carried around that case of jewelry because she had dementia. Reine was still furious with Valerie, her daughter, because she hadn’t come back when she said she would, and she’d ended up having to chase an old woman down the street.

Reine wanted to cry from the agony that filled every part of her, but all she could feel now was numbness. Maybe there was a point where her body couldn’t take one more thing. She sat there, knowing she was going back to bars and concrete, a tiny cell. And her daughter, Eva… She’d never see her again. It was that thought which had tears slipping down her face and her nose running, and she couldn’t even wipe it. She sniffed loudly.

“Come on, Reine. You’ve got to tell me something. Did you really do this?” Marcus said. She hadn’t heard him walk back in. She refused to look up at him and shook her head.

“Does it matter? Seems my word means nothing. Seems it’s easy to say I did it because I have a record…”

“You were the last person at her house, and now the jewelry is missing.

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