Colton Copycat Killer by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

In deference to Sam’s private nature, Zoe refrained from saying anything when they left the prison.

As they made their way back to his car, she could feel Sam seething and struggling to come to terms with what had gone down during his conversation with his father in the prison’s visitation room. Even so, she refrained from saying anything until they were seated inside his vehicle.

But she really hated seeing him having to go through this.

Just how much more could he be expected to take? Zoe wondered, her protective instincts rising to the surface. His mother had been taken from him at a young age, his father had literally torn his family apart, the woman he thought was carrying his child had deliberately deceived him for her own gain and now his father was attempting to play him, dangling much-wanted information in front of his face as if it was some sort of a carrot. To what end, no one could really guess.

Certainly not her, Zoe thought, waiting for Sam to get into the car on his side.

Pulling her seat belt out and around her waist, she then reached over to slip the metal tongue into its slot and looked at the man she had silently loved since forever.

Zoe broke her silence.

“Sam, you can’t let him get to you.”

Sam’s eyes narrowed as he glared in her direction. He jabbed his key into the ignition. “Did I ask you for your opinion?” he demanded hotly, still smarting from the fact that he had no choice in this matter with his father. He was going to have to go along with Matthew’s manipulative game.

He hated not having a choice.

“No,” she replied quietly. Zoe shifted in her seat and faced forward, looking, without seeing, through the windshield.

Ashamed of the way he’d just jumped all over her when all she had done was try to be there for him—never mind that he hadn’t asked her to—Sam felt a sharp jab of guilt rip right through him.

“Sorry,” Sam mumbled his apology, and then immediately went on the defensive. “But what makes you think he got to me?”

In his somewhat biased opinion, he had done his best to sound indifferent to his father’s ramblings, and when that didn’t have the desired effect, he’d just stepped back and let the old man talk without bothering to answer him. How was that letting Matthew get to him? At least visibly?

“Well, for one thing, I seem to have lost all feeling in my fingers,” Zoe informed him quietly, looking down at her hand, which was now captured in a vise lock in his.

Somehow, without thinking, he’d taken hold of her hand again. Not only that, but he obviously must have squeezed it, channeling his feeling through the grip he’d exhibited, holding her fingers virtual prisoners in his hand. No wonder she thought something was wrong.

Instantly he released Zoe’s hand and then looked at it. He saw what she was talking about. The fingers on that hand all looked rather red and he could see they were all but pulsating.

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