Total pages in book: 140
Estimated words: 137144 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 686(@200wpm)___ 549(@250wpm)___ 457(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 137144 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 686(@200wpm)___ 549(@250wpm)___ 457(@300wpm)
Once Paddy had gone through everything, they’d leak some information to the cops and remove the cameras before they could be found.
Instead of going upstairs, he moved into his office and sat on the chair. He just stared at the computer screen, unsure of what to do. It felt like he should be doing something. Instead, he was just sitting here, aimless.
Should he tell her that they found the doctor? Should he tell her about her mother?
The other woman had seemed to have gone completely cuckoo. She was being held in the basement of Ronan’s house. Michaela had to give her something to calm her down.
All of her screeching and crying had been doing everyone’s head in.
He hated this. He didn’t want to lie to Lily, but at the same time, he should probably wait till he had more information. Maybe the doctor had just been filming her for his own entertainment. But he had a feeling the money the doctor was using to run the clinic had come from a different sort of revenue stream.
“Harvey?”
He glanced up to see her standing in the doorway. Her hair was all mussed. She rubbed at her eyes, and it drew up the bottom of the T-shirt she was wearing, so we could see her smooth and sexy upper thighs.
Fuck. He still couldn’t believe he’d eaten her out. That had been fucking amazing.
“Is everything okay?” she asked. “I woke up and you were gone.”
He couldn’t believe the way she’d been treated by her own mother and the doctor. Anger rose inside him, and he felt the urge to punch something. Or vomit. But he couldn’t do either because he had to keep this to himself. At least for a little bit longer.
Once he told her, her life wasn’t going to be the same again.
“Harvey, what’s wrong? You look so worried.”
She stepped forward, shivering slightly, and that’s when he realized that his T-shirt was the only thing she was wearing. She had bare feet, and the floors were cold this morning. In fact, the cabin wasn’t really that warm. He needed to turn the heating up. The last thing he wanted was her getting sick.
“Baby, you shoudn’t be walking around without any socks on. You should have a dressing gown on too. Is there a dressing gown in your closet?”
Picking her up, he carried her out of the room and into the living room.
Setting her down, he grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around her, then sat on the sofa with her on his lap.
Should he be holding her like this when he knew the truth?
Harvey hated keeping things from her.
“Well, I woke up and you weren’t there, so I thought I’d come find you. How come you’re up so early?”
He had to tell her some of it.
“I got a phone call soon after you fell asleep,” he told her. “From the guy I had watching Dr. Wallace, he said he raced home and was acting strangely. So I thought I’d go over to the doctor’s house and see what was going on.”
“Did you talk to him?” she asked.
“When I went inside, he was dead.”
“Oh my God. Was it a heart attack or something?” She gave him a shocked look.
“No, baby. His throat was slit. Somebody must have been waiting in this house for him to get home. They murdered him, and then snuck out while we entered the house.”
She gasped. “He’s really dead?”
“Yeah, he’s really dead.” He swallowed. Should he tell her the next part?
“And your mother was there. In the house.”
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“My mother was there? Wait, are you saying that she killed him?”
“No, we don’t think so. There was no weapon, and she had no blood on her. She got there a few minutes before I did, so I doubt there’s any way that she harmed him.”
“That must have been terrifying for her to find, though. Is she all right?”
God, this girl. How could she ask a question like that after everything her mother had done to her?
He was certain the old bitch wouldn’t ask after Lily’s welfare. In fact, she hadn’t. When he’d talked to her, all she’d been concerned about was herself.
“Don’t waste any of your time worrying about your mother. That bitch wouldn’t do the same for you.”
She flinched. Harvey immediately felt bad about his harsh words, not because he didn’t mean them, but because he didn’t want to hurt her.
That was the very last thing he wanted to do.
“I suppose you’re right,” she said. “Where is she now? Did she go home? Were the police called?”
“No, we didn’t call the police,” he said. “We’re leaving it for the moment. We cleaned up any evidence that we were ever there. Your mother is staying with Ronan at the moment while we try to figure out what to do with her.”
“But won’t you get into trouble for that? She’ll tell someone. Is he keeping her there against her will?”