Rocco's Atonement by E.M. Shue

Author:E.M. Shue [Shue, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-16T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER

FIVE

GUINEVERE

“Am I under arrest? Are you taking me back?” I ask quietly from the backseat. I thought Rocco was keeping me with him. But he’s seated up front. He didn’t want me in the backseat by myself, but the other guy, Linc, had two other men sit on either side of me. I feel small next to them in the back of the SUV. The windows are blacked out so no one can see inside.

Rocco turns his head to look back at me. This isn’t a police car, so there is not a partition between us.

“Sweetheart, do you want to go back? No, you aren’t under arrest. We need to go to the precinct so we can take your statement.” He pauses, and I know he wants to say more but doesn’t. He keeps whatever it is to himself, making me afraid.

I bite the side of my lip and shrink back into the seat, trying to figure out how I’m going to get away again if they make me go back. I don’t realize I’m crying until Rocco growls.

“Pull the fuck over, now,” he yells at Linc. The SUV comes to a stop, and Rocco jumps out. He’s leaving me now. I’m too broken for him, but then the door opens and he’s ordering the man next to me out. “You sit up there.” The man moves and Rocco takes his place next to me. He pulls me into his side and holds me. “I swear you are safe, Ever. We just need you to tell us about the conversation you heard today. Plus, there are attorneys there for you. Your uncle hired them. Please don’t cry, sweetheart.”

“You’re lying. You’re taking me back. I know it, because George always gets his way. Doesn’t it matter that he said he killed someone?” I yell at him as I push myself away. The car is moving again.

“Sweetheart, please calm down, you’re going to hurt yourself. I’m taking you to the precinct, I swear. We need to get a report of this.”

His words start to roll through my mind.

“You said, ‘Your uncle hired them.’ I can’t go back to them. I won’t survive.”

“Not that uncle. You know that George is your uncle?”

“Then which uncle?” I ignore his question; I don’t want to let him know that I remember everything.

“Your Uncle Geoffrey.” The name sounds familiar, and I remember walking in on a conversation years ago between Carmen and George. Geoffrey was a man who knew my teacher, the one who tried to help me. They said he was just jealous. I didn’t understand it then, but now it means so much more.

“Geoffrey wants to see me? He isn’t after the money too?”

“Shit, you remember?” Rocco pulls me tighter against his chest and my palm slides across his shirt. I take in the smell of his cologne. I take in everything that is him. I want everything he wants to give me too.

“I remembered this afternoon. I was just a small child, so I don’t have a lot of memories.

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