Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 66099 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 330(@200wpm)___ 264(@250wpm)___ 220(@300wpm)
They walked her out of the room screaming and threatening at the top of her lungs as they read off her rights and the laundry list of shit she was being arrested for.
I didn’t say anything to Track and dad, I’ll save that for later. “You didn’t believe her shit right? If you tell me you did I’ll jump out the damn window. I’m tired.” She shook her head no and wrapped her arm around my waist.
“Let’s go home.” I let her lead me out of the room.
One down one more to go. With Mandy behind bars, all I needed was to find Stanley to tie her into the attack on Sian. I need that to put her away for the rest of her life.
I’d been leaving clues and making anonymous phone calls to the cops for a while. Once I’d contacted the men she’d been extorting and told them the truth about her age, some of them were more than happy to come forward.
The only ones that tried to hold out were the married ones. Some of them I let slide, like Cassie’s dad. But the others I put the squeeze on.
That’s why I’d needed her phone and the stuff that she left behind when she got kicked out of her house. My team had already confiscated it all. That, along with the computer stick Liz had mailed me, were locked away in my safe. Everything except the phone which had been mailed to the cops. I was still protecting Carter, but I had to do it for Cassie’s sake.
The ones that did have sex with her when she was underage, their names had been handed over to the cops. There were going to be a lot of miserable people in this town pretty soon.
We walked out just in time to hear the cops asking about the Mercedes they found parked around back. I hadn’t even seen it there earlier. One of my security team came out of the dark long enough to tell them that Mandy had driven up in the car.
“Go home Jace, take my daughter in law home to get some rest. I’ll take it from here.” For once I didn’t argue. I was halfway done with what I had to do. Though I hadn’t expected things to end tonight, or that I’d be there when she was arrested, I was glad it was finally over at least part of it.
What they had on her wouldn’t put her away for life, but it was a nice start. And once we catch Stanley that should be the final nail in her coffin. I wanted her to get life behind bars at least. I didn’t know the half of it.
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SIAN
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I knew he was up to something. All day I could tell. So when I felt his absence and woke up and found him gone with his side of the bed still warm, I knew he hadn’t been gone long.
I jumped out of bed and snuck out of the room to find him. I used one of his tricks when he was nowhere in sight. I checked the monitor to find out where he was.
I didn’t worry about where he was going, or thought to be suspicious of him sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night, I just knew that something was wrong. Besides, I’m his wife, I don’t need a reason or an excuse to follow him.
At first, when he made the turnoff to my parents’ home I thought he was going to check on Maggie’s pony. I was thinking how thoughtful he was when instead of heading back to the stables, he turned to the backdoor.
I gave him a few minutes before following after him. There was broken glass there and that was my first clue that something wasn’t right. So, instead of alerting him to my presence I tiptoed my way up the stairs behind him. It hadn’t even registered that the light in my room was on when I drove up.
And then I heard her voice and I knew it was a good thing that I was there. It never entered my mind to believe her like last time. I was hip to her tricks now, and I knew Jace much better.
So when she started popping off about a baby, all I could think was, how ironic. When I stepped into the room and saw her, it was like seeing the real her for the first time. Her appearance finally matched her deeds.
Maybe that’s what helped me to ignore her words. She looked defeated, desperate even, and the look in her eyes…. She looked like someone that had been cornered, someone with one last gasp of breath left.
I didn’t feel for her. Not when the cops dragged her off, and not when they ran the plates on the car and they came back to the dead principal who they’d found earlier in the school yard behind the dumpsters.