Red Dust Rebel (A Red Dust Romance, #4) by Eva Scott

Author:Eva Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing

Chapter 17

JT lay on her bed staring at the ceiling, her hand resting on her belly. She didn’t have the energy for a single thought, good or bad.

The afternoon had been spent putting up with invasive questions from the police, making lists of things that had to be done and then working out who would do them. Paula had been magnificent, leaving with a sheaf of papers and a to-do list as long as her arm. She’d gone from upset to angry with ease, harnessing the emotion to get things sorted.

JT wished she could do the same. Her head thumped despite taking two strong headache tablets. The enormity of what had occurred refused to be chunked down into digestible bits. She simply couldn’t get her head around the who or why of the situation. She kept slamming up against the fact someone hated her that much. What had she done to deserve this kind of punishment?

At that point, her mind would reset and begin at the beginning again, around and around it went until she became so exhausted her mind filled with a kind of white noise preventing any real thought at all.

Her phone had buzzed all day with messages of support from a shocked community. Things like this didn’t happen in Elliott’s Crossing. Except for that one time, with Nate. She knew that incident occurred to everyone else, that they remembered even if they no longer held it against him. Some of them at least. She knew there’d be those who’d say I told you so. Let a convicted arsonist back into your life and what do you expect.

The naysayers could gossip as much as they liked. JT knew in the very marrow of her bones that Nate hadn’t set fire to her office. He’d never do something like that. He’d never destroy all she’d spent her life achieving. That wasn’t the man she loved. And she did love him. This incident had only served to prove that to her on a deeper level. Nate had been nothing but loving and supportive. He’d even managed to keep his temper in the face of Constable Terry’s pointed questions.

It had been clear Constable Terry had Nate firmly at the top of his suspect list. Nate had been home with no one to provide an alibi for his whereabouts. He’d been surfing the net. Dad had pointed out that Nate’s search records would probably be sufficient to show he was where he said he was doing what he said he’d been doing. Not much, but something.

JT sighed and rolled over. Her eyelids drooped. She ought to get up and make some calls. Some of her cases would have to be moved. Being Saturday, there’d be no one at court to help her anyway. Can’t start there. So where did she begin the clean-up? Her dad offered to secure the confidential files and the remains of the computers that managed to survive the fire. And it wasn’t as if they could give the place a good scrub down and get back to business—the roof had caved in.

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