AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I kiss her hand. “I’m not going anywhere. Do you need a doctor?”
“I’m going in the morning.”
“I’m worried about you, Cat.”
“Which is exactly what I didn’t want.” She grabs my lapels. “Go win, damn it.”
I hesitate, but I cup her head and kiss her. “I love you.”
“I love you, too,” she says, and I force myself to walk to the door, but exiting the room and leaving her behind about kills me.
Chapter fifty-one
Reese
Cat is rattled and my wife doesn’t get rattled often, but something still isn’t right with her. Not that I would expect her to be anything but rattled. I just told her I had a crazy person in my life, that is now potentially in our lives. Which I won’t let happen. Life is too damn good with Cat for me to let anyone ruin that and no one will ever hurt her. I will hurt them first.
I return to the room where Dana’s boyfriend Reginald is waiting and stop beside the guard. “Anything I need to know?”
“He’s calm and quiet.”
“Reese.”
I look up to find Savage, a big bear of a man with a goatee, who works for Royce coming my way. “I’m your back up, man.” He stops beside me. “I can go in or stay out.”
“You’re intimidating as hell, Savage,” I say. “The idea isn’t to scare the man.”
“If you say so,” he murmurs, grinning. “If you change your mind, I’m right here.” He steps to the side of the door.
I knock and enter to find Reginald sitting behind a basic wooden desk. He stands up, his tall, but lanky build, bending over the desk, as he presses his fingers to the surface. “She has to know I wouldn’t release that call. I love her.”
He looks older than his forty years in this moment, the lines of his face, around his eyes, exaggerated. “Who else could have?” I ask.
“I didn’t record that call. Unless Dana did, someone tapped our phones.”
I have no idea why the suggestion that Dana released her own call bothers me, but it does.
“I’d say it was her father, but obviously that’s not possible.” He scrubs a hand through his hair. “I can’t believe she thinks I did this. Fuck. I didn’t do it. Why would I do that to her?”
I could go at him. I could tell him he benefits from inheriting the money, too, if he marries Dana, but I don’t. I can’t turn him on her. I can’t warn him. “Whoever killed her father obviously wanted to set her up. They most likely had that recording before they killed him and released it before trial to ensure the jury heard it.”
“What can I do to help?”
“Understand that she’s scared and her placing blame right now is just a product of a million emotions she’s fighting. She melted down when she heard you were here. Obviously, the idea of you betraying her rocked her.”
“And me. The idea that she believes that guts me.”
“Just—try to put yourself in her shoes, sitting on trial, and having the world cover it, on top of losing her father. Even when you hate a parent, having them die, shakes your world.”
He nods and swallows. “I know. I lost my asshole of a father two years ago.”
He says “asshole” so fiercely that I make a mental note to find out what happened to his father. “I need to get back. We’re headed into court in half an hour, but give her some space. I’m sure she’ll talk to you tonight.”
“She called me. Right before you walked in.”
“And?”
“She said she’d talk tonight. Did you tell her to talk to me?”
