What He Resists (What He Wants, Book Nine) (An Alpha Billionaire Romance) by Ford Hannah

Author:Ford, Hannah [Ford, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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The sound of my phone ringing woke me at seven the next morning.

I untangled myself from Noah and moved to where my cell was sitting on the desk. The caller ID flashed a 212 number – Manhattan – but it was a number I didn’t recognize. I hesitated, looking at Noah lying on the bed behind me, still asleep.

I took the phone into the bathroom, pulling on a robe from the closet and shrugging into it.

“Hello?” I asked. There was no reply for a moment, and my heart sped up, thinking maybe it was Anonymous.

But then a young woman’s voice said, “Hi, is this Charlotte Holloway?”

“Yes, this is Charlotte.”

“Hi, um… this is Madeline Dunn. Um, Katie’s friend. You sent me a message on facebook.”

“Oh!” I said. “Right. Madeline, hi, thanks for calling.”

“You’re welcome. I’m sorry it’s so early, but I had the early shift at my job, and then I have class, so this was really the only time I had free.”

“Oh, no, it’s fine,” I said. “I’m really sorry to hear about Katie. I’m sure it’s been a very difficult time for you.” We’d been taught to do this in Criminal Law 101 – to always make sure we were sensitive to any potential witness’s loss. It made the witness form a bond with you, made them think you were someone worth trusting.

When we’d first learned that, I’d found it a bit ridiculous – of course you were going to be sorry for someone’s loss, of course that was going to be the first thing you said to any witness who’d experienced something horrific. But now I realized it didn’t come as easy as I’d thought – my lawyer brain was turned on, and I was hungry for information.

Was it because I had such a personal connection to the defendant? Or was it because this is what happened when you became a lawyer? You got so used to shutting off your emotions and trying to win cases that you almost forgot how to be human? The thought was unsettling.

“It’s been really hard, yeah,” Madeline said. “Katie, she… she was my best friend.”

“I gathered you two were very close.”

“Yes. Very.”

“I’d love to meet up with you and ask you some questions about Katie, if there was anyone you thought might want to hurt her.”

“Everyone loved Katie,” Madeline said, sounding slightly offended. “She was a great girl.”

“No, I don’t mean Katie did anything wrong,” I said quickly. “I just meant… was there anyone you thought might want to hurt her? An ex-boyfriend, perhaps?”

“Katie didn’t have many ex-boyfriends. She was pretty inexperienced until recently.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean she started dating this older man. He was into… he was into things that were kind of weird.”

“Weird how?” My mouth went dry and my heart started to pound.

“Just… sexual things,” Katie trailed off. “I don’t really know how to explain it.”

I closed my eyes. “Who was the man?”

“She wouldn’t say. But I got the impression it was her boss, Noah Cutler.”

“Have you told the police that, Katie?”

“Aren’t you the police?”

“No.

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