HeartStrings by Savannah Kade

Author:Savannah Kade [Kade, Savannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Griffyn Ink

Chapter 24

Shay sat at the conference table, nervously twisting the water glass in front of her. If she paid attention, it would ride around the glossy surface in the ring it had sweated there.

Reaching out, Wilcox stilled her hand. "We've got this. If he refuses, we'll crush him in court. No worries."

But she worried.

She needed to be here. Needed to show her face, maybe answer some questions. Mostly, she needed to—wanted to—put on a good front and show Jason that he didn't have any hold over her any more.

Wilcox was young, but very competent. Each day Shay sent up a prayer of thanks to Craig for finding him, let alone paying for him. The lawyer was an animal when it came to kids’ rights. He made no bones about the fact that he'd grown up in foster care, that he'd been beaten and molested. He'd graduated high school and been dumped unceremoniously out of the system on his eighteenth birthday.

Apparently, Parker Wilcox had it worse than she had, and he'd had his shit together better than she had, too. Because he'd made sure he had a summer job and a friend's couch to crash on. Then he'd enrolled at the community college, gotten an A.A. degree, earned a scholarship to finish his bachelors at a prestigious university and went on to law school from there.

Given his past, he trusted his gut when it came to parents. He charged an arm and a leg, and told Shay that he would have taken her case for what she could pay. The more he learned about her exes, the more he'd been willing to take her on for anything. Not that it mattered. He had Craig's money.

Wilcox had sat her down and told her he needed a few things from her. He requested paperwork, DNA testing, and more. But he'd also said she owed him. She was never to marry another man like either of her exes again. Then he said if she found herself in a bad situation she was to come to him so he could get her out. He made her agree to those terms and swear it on her children's lives—because that's what was at stake, he said. She believed him. He was a pit bull.

So she sat here in her best pantsuit. Actually a nice one from fine fabric, even though she'd found it at a cheap resale shop. She was trying not to look nervous.

Tapping her hand again, Wilcox said, "If you can't find your backbone, find your anger. Think about what he did. Each time you go to open your mouth, think about every time he left your kid high and dry. Think about the awful things he said to you. And let it bleed through a little."

Shay nodded at him just as she heard the shuffling of voices in the hall. She glanced at the watch she'd strapped on this morning, only now noticing that the gold was rubbing off in spots. Cheap. But no worries, Jason was late.

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