Fractured Chances (All the Wrong Things Book 2) by Carmen Black

Author:Carmen Black [Black, Carmen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scarlet Lantern Publishing
Published: 2022-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Mikhail

Julissa walks into the shop with steady movements. She’s not messing around. “Sorry, I’m late. Let’s get started,” she says. Her expression is like stone.

I look at her in concern. “What’s up? You okay?”

She just nods. “Mmhm.” She shuts me out and stares at me impatiently.

I try not to make her coldness toward me about me even though it burns. I didn’t look at the notes or even get started on the car without her. I want us to do it together so she knows I’ve got her back. I retrieve the logbook and get out of sight of my boss. With nervous hands, I flip open the book, skipping the pages to the dreadful day, looking for the license plate number which I wrote down to help me identify the car with the owner. She’s looking from me to the book, her eyes daring me to tell her what I’ve found, knowing the truth already for herself.

My stomach drops and my heartbeat stops for at least a second or two. “Harry Burns.” Written clear as day. I swallow and look up at her confident eyes. “You were right,” I say under my breath, feeling ashamed, angry, and scared for her all at once.

“Of course, I was. Asshole. Feel like an idiot yet?” she asks me.

The words “idiot” and “asshole” don’t even begin to cover it. I turn toward her to hold her. “I’m sorry,” I say but she pulls away with tears in her eyes. I’m at a loss for words at how I’ve treated her and how I’ve hurt her. It’s like that moment when the fog has cleared and you’re left exposed. I am so embarrassed.

“Not now. Don’t touch me, right now. Please. I can’t.” She brushes her tears away, takes a deep breath, and clears her throat. “Let’s just get on with the rest of it.” She moves toward the car and I unlock it. “I want to see the blood,” she says.

This is not the time for me to be telling her that it could still be deer’s blood, only because I feel helpless in a situation like this especially since I’m not a cop anymore and I don’t have any connections because I never let the team that helped us know where we were going when we left. If I had any connections, I would send this to the lab for sure. If I knew for certain that I still had cops that were on our side and could protect us, I would feel a lot better going after this piece of shit. But we’re on our own here and I feel useless. So it’s probably stupid but I’m still hoping it’s deer blood so that we don’t have to do anything about it or live with the guilt of letting it slide.

Julissa doesn’t give a fuck about whether we have connections or not. She’s staring at the dried blood, soaked into the interior fabric of the trunk like she’ll be able to detect what kind of blood it is with some kind of hidden x-ray vision.

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