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I gritted my teeth. “Seems like you know it all, don’t you?”
“I know that your accounts are all frozen,” she smiled. “They’ll be that way for a while until the investigation decides you are either guilty or innocent. I’m going with guilty, though. You don’t have a gang member running drugs out of your house and not know a single thing about what’s going on.”
So I buried my head in the sand.
Sue me.
It was easier to pretend that my brother was an upstanding citizen if I didn’t pay attention to anything he did.
Hell, half the time I didn’t even look at him so I wouldn’t see something that I wasn’t supposed to.
“Sorry to disappoint you, but I did my best to ignore anything and everything that was going on.” I shrugged. “I am innocent.”
She snorted. “You’re not.”
I fisted my hands. “I am. But you’re not.”
She rolled her eyes. “And how is that?”
“You took a life tonight.”
Her brows rose. “I don’t remember hurting anyone besides you.”
“Exactly,” I snapped.
Her brows rose. “I’m afraid you’re not making sense. That concussion you have going on is doing things to your brain.”
“I was pregnant,” I told her bluntly. “You hurt me so badly that I suffered a miscarriage.”
Something in her eyes changed. An unhingedness that had me taking a step back.
“You what?” she asked.
I didn’t say anything, choosing to stay silent.
Maybe it wasn’t the best thing in the world to confront her like…
She ran at me like a linebacker.
One second, I was upright, and the next I was slamming against my car at a breath-stealing velocity.
My back hit hard and I felt my head snap back, all the oxygen fleeing my lungs.
Yeah, definitely not the best thing to do, provoke her.
But before another hit could come, I heard a scuffle.
Stunned, I slid against the car until I was on my bottom and stared at the two people on the ground.
Quinn had Elliette on the gravel pavement, stomach on the ground, with his body straddling hers.
He had both of her hands behind her back, and he was easily subduing her while Elliette tried everything in her power to get free.
Quinn looked completely unfazed.
“Get off of me!” she screeched. “I did nothing wrong!”
“You might actually have convinced others of that, but not me after catching you attacking her in a Cracker Barrel parking lot,” he stated calmly.
