Shattered Trust (Shattered #2) by Magda Alexander

Author:Magda Alexander [Alexander, Magda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477817353
Published: 2016-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Trenton

When I get to Madrigal’s house, Alicia Carson, Madison’s bodyguard, is posted at the door, which means Maddy must be home. I head to my room and unpack my belongings. Once I’m done, I return to the foyer in search of intel. Alicia would know Madrigal’s location. “Where’s Ms. Berkeley?”

“The evidence room.” I’d known about it, of course, as Madrigal had described it to me Thursday night. But with everything going on, I hadn’t had a chance to check it out. Eager to see her, I walk toward what was formerly the parlor.

There I find Madrigal, Cristina, Madison, Charlie . . . and Hunter Stone. What the hell?

Madison stands at the ready in front of one of the boards. After Charlie blurts out a few words, she scribbles madly. Cristina writes something on another one and stands back to study all of them.

Madrigal’s seated in one of the settees, a coffee table in front of her with a book of some kind resting on it. But what grabs my attention is the gorgeous son of a bitch rubbing shoulders with her. Hunter Stone. They’re flipping pages, whispering about something in the book. Cozy does not begin to describe them.

“What’s going on?” I ask.

Madrigal’s head comes up. “Trenton. You’re home.”

Everyone in the room stops what they’re doing to stare at me.

“It’s after six. Where else would I be?”

She walks up to me, places her dainty hand on my chest, and shoves me out the door. “You can’t be in here.”

I allow her to exile me to the corridor. No sense making a scene in front of everyone. “Why the hell not?”

She crosses her arms across her chest in a move I’ve come to know very well. Whatever she’s going to say, I’m not going to like. “I’ve decided to conduct the investigation without your help. I need to do this on my own.”

I snort. “On your own? There were four people in there with you, including that bastard Stone!” I yell.

“Will you hush?” She grabs my hand and leads me toward the screened-in porch where I first proposed we move in together. Could that really have been only a week ago? So much has happened since then. But that plan’s gone up in smoke, burned to cinders by Mitch’s case, the need to establish my own law practice, and now Madrigal’s determination to exclude me from the investigation into her parents’ murders.

“Hunter’s helping us with the evidence. His assistance has been incalculable. Between him and Charlie, we have a new theory of the crime.”

“Such as?”

She tosses her head. “I can’t tell you.”

“Can’t or won’t?”

“Won’t. I want to do this on my own, Steele. Can’t you understand that?”

“You’re shutting me out of your parents’ murder investigation?”

“Yes, I am.” I’ve never seen her this adamant.

“Why?”

“You ordered Charlie to keep the detective’s file from me. Did you think I would never find out?”

“You’ve seen what’s in that file. I wanted to protect you.”

“I don’t need protection. You knew how important that information was to me, and yet you asked him not to hand over the folder.

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