Tell Me by Dilorenzo Deanna

Author:Dilorenzo, Deanna [Dilorenzo, Deanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780988975002
Amazon: 0988975009
Goodreads: 17450004
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Nobody knew it, but Morrisette had a deep, innate fear. She hated prisons or jails or any kind of lockup, and the thought of spending time behind any kind of bars nearly paralyzed her insides.

As a teenager, she’d been caught with her boyfriend in a house they’d broken into. She’d lived in Bad Luck, Texas, at the time and had been hauled in by the city police. A big bear of a woman whose name she couldn’t remember had locked her in a holding cell and warned, “You’d better straighten up, little missy, or you’ll find yourself in jail for the rest of your life.” She’d left Morrisette alone for seven hours, and the isolation and lack of freedom had done the trick. From that moment on, Morrisette had taken the big cop’s snarled advice and determined she never wanted to hear the sound of a lock turning behind her again; in fact, she planned to be on the other side of the barred door, and so she’d become a cop.

Not that it wasn’t a great feeling to lock up some scumbag and throw away the key, but she preferred to fill out the paperwork and send the jerk up the river rather than step inside a penitentiary.

Today the old tightness in her chest was with her as she walked inside Fairfield Women’s Prison. She and Reed had waited in the reception area, been escorted to the warden’s surprisingly homey office, then, after a quick briefing, had been escorted to a private interrogation room that was a little too much like a prison cell, in Morrisette’s opinion. Though it was insulated from the general population and the cages where they were held, it still made Morrisette need to tamp down her case of the willies and wonder why the hell she’d ever given up smoking. Right now, she could use a Camel straight.

The area had cinder-block walls painted a dull green and wasn’t much larger than the bedroom in Morrisette’s duplex, and it was a lot less cozy, with its jail-cell door, metal table bolted to the floor, and intense artificial light. The concrete floor had been worn smooth, paths nearly visible on it, compliments of thousands of feet that had shuffled in and out of its barred door.

They waited, as they’d planned, with Reed taking a chair at the narrow table so that he could face the prisoner and her attorney, while Morrisette hung back, leaning against the wall, observing the conversation.

She heard footsteps in the outer hallway and looked up just as Blondell appeared, shackled and escorted by an armed guard whose expression suggested she didn’t know how to smile. Blondell was the older and by far the prettier of the two. Her auburn hair, strands of silver visible, was long and pulled away from her face; her cheekbones were still high, and above them large, gray eyes still held a child-like innocence, despite the charges that had been brought against her, despite twenty years of lockup.

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