Page 29 of Unruly Defender
Beck snickers.“Friend?More like fuck buddy.You have a weird dog.”
I shake my head while the corner of my mouth twitches.“Says the man who owns a miniature pig.”
“Touché,” Beck says, giving me a grin right after.
We say our goodbyes and Gracy and I head for my mother’s bungalow to grab a few things.Rhett is coming inside this time and is watching how Finn is humping his stuffed pig.
He slowly turns his head toward me.“Is he okay?”
“The dog or the pig?”I snicker.
Finn is completely out of breath but this is his normal and it will make him tired enough to sleep for an hour or two.
“Henley, can you come here for a sec?”Gracy questions and I stroll over to where she’s standing.
She’s holding some papers along with an envelope and I’m about to question her when she says, “Let’s go into the bedroom so you can help me pick some of the stuff we need to bring with us for your mother.”
Gracy doesn’t wait for a reply but heads into the bedroom.I follow her and she closes the door behind me, leaning against it the next second while holding out the papers for me to take.“What if Maggie was going through these papers and it triggered something?Could that be possible?Look, there’s a little note and it’s not your mother’s handwriting.I don’t recognize whose handwriting it might be.”
“It’s my father’s,” I grunt and am frozen to the floor because the papers she’s holding are those I recognize all too well and yet I now notice they are slightly different.
I can tell because I recognize the address and it’s from the huge mall that’s involved with the reason I was sent to prison.Brazen fraud, and I knew someone screwed with the papers because everything was legal and up and running, there was no fucking fraud.
My chest is rising and falling and my heart is beating out of control.Why does my mother have these papers?Papers like this should be in the safe at the office.But it’s too much of a coincidence for these papers to be here.
I swallow hard and glance over the documents I’ve seen before and yet these are different.The note from my father.This.If I had this when I was arrested, I would have walked out a second later because this right here proves my innocence, while at the same time it proves my father’s death wasn’t an accident but murder.Because him having this is a huge bullseye of motive for someone to kill him to keep things quiet.
CHAPTER TEN
– GRACY –
“Are you okay?”I whisper.
His whole face went white when he glanced over those papers he’s holding.They don’t make any sense to me but the way they were all spread out on the table it looked like Maggie was reading them and needed some fresh air.That’s probably why I found her on the patio instead of inside the house.
“I knew that fucker was behind everything,” Henley mutters and grabs his phone.He waits a few breaths before he starts to rattle, “Clemente, did your lawyer get your hands on those documents they said Gracy signed?”
