Colton in the Line of Fire by Cindy Dees

Author:Cindy Dees
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-04T14:47:37+00:00

Chapter 10

Yvette’s face was on fire. She couldn’t breathe. Her chest had an iron band around it.

Holy cow. This was a panic attack. She had to get out of here, away from all these people. And at all costs, she had to avoid Reese. What in the heck was he doing, accusing her father of murder? She knew all the evidence in the murder cases—she’d personally logged in most of it in the stupid investigation. Even though she’d passed the most important testing off to other labs to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest and to avoid accusations of her tainting the evidence, she did know the results of all that testing.

And one thing she knew for sure: n o way was her father the killer.

It was a wild miscarriage of justice.

Her brothers and sisters murmured angrily among themselves, and she became aware that they weren’t talking with her. Of course not. To them, she was the Judas. The forensic scientist who’d apparently—and secretly—set up their father for a crime he hadn’t committed. She felt their emotional withdrawal as acutely as she felt their physical withdrawal from her.

It was subtle, but all of her siblings had moved away from her, circled around Lilly, turned their backs to her just enough to shut her out of their mutual circle of concern for their dad and of support for their mom.

Miserable, she turned and wriggled into the crowd, using her small stature to slip between reporters in the crush of bodies. She had no idea where she was headed. Just...away.

“You’re Fitz Colton’s daughter, aren’t you?” a reporter asked, shoving a microphone under her nose. “Do you have a comment on your father’s arrest?”

“Uhh, no,” she stammered.

Another journalist closed in on her. “Hey, aren’t you the forensics chick for the Braxville Police?” To the first reporter, the second one said, “She’s Fitz Colton’s kid, you say?”

Both journalists turned on her. “You investigated your own father? Proved he’s a murderer? How does he feel about that?”

“No comment.”

“Hey, guys! Colton’s own daughter is the one who put him in jail for the double murders! This is her!”

And it was on. The press corps mobbed her, hemming her in so tightly she couldn’t move and could barely breathe. Lights glared in her eyes, microphones were shoved in her face and a cacophony of voices shouted in her ears until she couldn’t make out anything anyone said. Which was probably just as well.

She put her head down and did her puny best to push through the crowd, but to no avail. She might as well have been standing in a cage made of arms and elbows and microphone wires.

The panic from before magnified until she was breathing so fast and shallow she started to see black spots and feel lightheaded. The questions and accusations bombarded her mercilessly, and she felt as if she was drowning. An urge to shout for help nearly overcame her.

How could Reese have done this to her? Heck, to her family and her father? It was wrong on so many levels.

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