Kiss Me Slow (Top Shelf Romance Book 1) by Tijan & Corinne Michaels & W. Winters & Louise Bay & Top Shelf Romance

Author:Tijan & Corinne Michaels & W. Winters & Louise Bay & Top Shelf Romance [Michaels, Corinne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-29T18:30:00+00:00

Jase

“What happened to her? To Jennifer Parks?”

Seth hesitates. Seated across from me, he slides forward to readjust before leaning back into an auburn leather armchair. It’s silent in the back of The Red Room. Not a single beat of the music or murmur of the guests makes its way through these doors.

Nothing makes it out of them either.

It’s a decadent but vacant space. A simple, but too-fucking-expensive iron and driftwood desk with no drawers stands in the middle of the room. My chair is at one end, while two matching chairs are on the other side. Not a damn thing else in the room.

The stubble on my jaw is rough; I’m way past due for a shave as I run my hand along my jaw as I wait for Seth’s answer.

“I’m still working on it, but let me tell you what I’ve got so far.”

“Are you fucking kidding me?” The rage is inexplicable as I slam the edge of my fist down on the desk. It jolts and I clench my jaw, hating that something like this can get to me.

I focus on calming my shit down, ignoring the irritation and Seth’s questioning gaze.

All day I’ve been on edge. Ever since I left Bethany’s place, the second the sun rose.

“It goes deeper than you think, Boss.” His voice is low, testing my patience and apologetic even.

“Let me have it,” I speak and gesture for him to get going.

“She went missing on December twenty-eighth, but before then she was in and out of her sister’s home and several friends’ places. It was January seventeenth that the burned remains, including several of her teeth, were found in a trunk at the bottom of the Rattle River on the west side of town.”

I remember the flash of an image I found myself, searching through the archives at the downtown station hard drive. It was all the information Kent, one of the detectives we keep on our payroll, had to give.

“Fucking brutal,” I murmur. The remains were charred, but some of the bones were broken before being burned.

“She was tortured, but time of death couldn’t be determined.”

“I already know this. Get to something I don’t know.”

He starts to speak, but before he can even suck in the air needed for the first word, I ask, “Did you find anything on the sister?”

My fingers rap on the desk, one at a time with brief pauses, one after the other. As if it’s only a casual conversation.

“Bethany Fawn?”

At my nod, he begins. “Jennifer was born out of wedlock to a Catherine Parks. Shortly after her birth, her mother and father got hitched, then conceived Bethany. Not long after her birth, the father took off. Leaving their mom with no job, a toddler and an infant.”

“Where did he go?”

“Nebraska, where he died of a heart attack in a casino three years ago.”

“Did they keep in touch?”

“Not a word,” Seth answers professionally, but his eyes are questioning.

“Go on.”

“Bethany Fawn, the younger of the two, did well in school. And it seems like that was all she was interested in.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.