Total pages in book: 112
Estimated words: 113272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 566(@200wpm)___ 453(@250wpm)___ 378(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 566(@200wpm)___ 453(@250wpm)___ 378(@300wpm)
Dear Lord. She was such a bitch.
“Abe was never an issue. He sleeps without his hearing aids. Plus, his nephew’s wife does my hair. I’ve been planting ideas about a nursing home in her head for ages.”
Holy heck.
“After you left and Abe decided to sell, I realized that my plan was finally working. I was going to present a good offer for both of their houses. More than they could resist and then no one would come near this property and work out what we were doing on it.”
“Don’t you think the town council would have had something to say about that?” Arabella asked.
“Screw them,” Ravina spat out as she stared down at her dress in disgust. “I would have figured it out. I have some interesting blackmail material on the head of the council. He’s not as good a person as everyone thinks.”
Okay, that was off-topic but still kind of interesting.
“But then I paid a visit to Abe late yesterday and he told me that you’re buying his place. When I told Liam that and how you’d been asking about a Lee Newsome, he got all stressed and angry. Told me that you used to know him.”
“He was my fiancée,” she told her.
Ravina flinched, looking shocked.
“No, he wasn’t!” Ravina screeched. “Take that back.”
“I can’t take it back. You don’t have to believe me but it’s the truth.” So Ravina hadn’t known about their engagement. Did she know that he’d been an advisor to her father?
“He wouldn’t . . . when? When was this?”
“Um, I think it was around six months ago.”
“We’ve been together for over a year!” Ravina cried. “There’s no way he would do this to me, you lying slut!”
Shit.
She was getting red in the face.
Maybe Arabella should defuse the situation.
“I’m the slut when he was the one cheating?”
Hmm. Seems she’d chosen not to defuse.
Ravina ran toward her with a scream but Arabella dodged her, pushing her to one side.
“Face it, you don’t know him,” Arabella told her. “He was probably using you because he needed your aunt’s property. Wait. What product was being moved?”
“Drugs, you dumb bitch. Liam is a genius, he’s developed a new drug and it’s being made right here on my aunt’s property. Nobody ever suspected a thing until you came along.”
Jesus.
Really?
“And then you go complaining to the sheriff and making his deputies do drive bys of your place. Do you realize what you did?”
“Stopped you guys from creating drugs? Wow. I feel so bad.”
Ravina was heaving for breath.
“Where is Lee now?” she asked. “And why kidnap me? I didn’t know anything.”
“I don’t know. Maybe because you fucked with production. Now we’re having to lie low until the sheriff and those FBI agents back off. I know they’ve been talking to other sheriffs in different counties about the drugs.”
Hmm. Interesting.
“So why are you here with me?” Arabella asked.
Would the guys find her? Where was Lee now? What would Horse do if something happened to her?
Panic threatened to swamp her and she tried her best to push it away. She needed to keep a calm head.
“I don’t know. He told me to stay with you and that he’d be back.”
Had Lee/Liam been the clown? She didn’t think so. But there had been something familiar about him . . .
Suddenly, the steel door opened and in walked Lee/Liam followed by a man with traces of white makeup on his face.
“Deputy Doofus?” she asked.
The deputy’s face darkened. Oops.
So he’d been the clown? And was he in on this with Lee/Liam and Ravina?
“My name is Zane, and bitch, I’d watch your mouth.”
“Liam!” Ravina got up and ran to him. “She pushed me over, right into her pile of puke. And she was telling me lies about how you were engaged. Can we kill her now?”
Wow. What a bitch.
Lee/Liam looked Ravina up and down before drawing a gun from the small of his back and shooting her. Right in the head.
Oh God.
Did that really just happen?
Oh God. Oh God.
She couldn’t believe that he’d done that so casually. There was no conversation. No hesitation.
Ravina never had a chance. Although she shouldn’t really feel sorry for her.
“Good, I was getting sick of her voice,” Deputy Doofus said.
Arabella was shaking. She stared down at her hands, then up at Lee/Liam and Deputy Doofus.
Everywhere but at Ravina.
It felt like she was having an out-of-body experience.
“Why . . . why did you d-do that?”
Don’t look.
Don’t look.
Do not vomit.
Was that going to happen to her?
Her breath shuddered in and out of her lungs. “I’m going to need so much therapy.”
Huh. Look at her. Able to joke in the face absolute fear.
“There won’t be any therapy for you,” Lee/Liam told her with a sigh. “What are you doing here, Arabella?”
“Um, you kidnapped me, remember? Or the deputy did.” She nodded at Doofus.
“I meant why are you in Haven,” Lee/Liam gritted out. “Did you follow me here? Did you know about the drugs? Did your idiot of a father tell you?”