Wife On Demand by Sellers Alexandra

Author:Sellers, Alexandra [Sellers, Alexandra]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-09T00:13:55+00:00

Now all that’s left is how to end

How to begin.

Finally, the yearning had stopped, too. But there had been no new beginning for Hope. There were only endings. Shutting up the office. Burying her father. And then, clearing out the things in his desk.

When she returned to the prison visiting room a week later, her briefcase bulging with every working drawing Gig Young had executed, the office records that should pin down the exact time of his tenure and the area of his operations, as well as other random files Hope did not understand the significance of, the visiting room guard would not allow her to take them in to him.

“Why not?” she demanded.

“Because we can’t allow it,” said the woman flatly.

Hope had never before met that voice of petty authority, but it was instantly recognizable. She stuffed the briefcase into a locker as instructed, and went in empty-handed.

Jude swore when she told him what had happened, a string of profanity that shocked her. “Maybe I could come back on a day when that woman’s not on duty,” she offered quietly.

“They don’t give us advance notice of the guards’ work schedule.” They sat staring at each other, Jude’s eyes burning into hers. “I have got to get out of here,” he said. His voice was all the more terrible for being quiet. The tension in him was electric.

“Jude,” she cautioned softly, frightened.

“There’s nothing they won’t do to stop me proving I’m innocent,” he said. “I’ll never get that information white I’m in here.”

“But your parole hearing is coming up. There’s a good chance you’ll get parole, isn’t there?”

“Do you think so?” Jude asked dryly. He sounded as if he were certain there was not.

“Why shouldn’t there be? It’s based on behaviour, isn’t it?” She looked into his eyes and wondered whether his anger at the injustice of his conviction ever expressed itself in self-defeating violence.

“It’s based on three things. Good behaviour, community support, and a proper display of remorse. One out of three is not an overwhelming score.”

“What’s community support?”

“It means a stable environment to return to. Something that might keep a man on the straight and narrow,” he told her, with a dry sarcasm in his voice that she did not understand the significance of.

“Jude, if there’s anything I can do—there must be something.” She supposed she owed him that much, however he had hurt her. If she could undo some of the damage she had done, by helping him get early parole, of course she must. She did not love him anymore, but that did not blind her to justice.

He leaned across the table and grasped her wrist. “You can help me,” he whispered.

“What do you want me to do?” The message of his touch, carried by blood and nerves, travelled to all the usual destinations within her, but she fought down her response.

“If I—” The intensity in him was catching. Her own heart was suddenly beating in hard heavy thumps. “For what I’m planning I need a safe house.

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