Sutton
“I really appreciate you coming out here, Brian. It means a lot to Mark and me.”
I could see the flush rise on Brian’s cheeks as I grabbed a box of cereal and plopped down beside him at the new kitchen table. Mark came in after me and kissed the top of my head.
Mark“Baby, wake up!” I brushed the hair back from Sutton’s face. “I need to head to the airport.”She moaned and turned in my arms. I had already gotten up and showered, but I still needed to put my clothes on. Sutton looked so warm and cozy in our bed that I couldn
SuttonMy fingers shook as I tried to dial Mark’s number. I couldn’t focus, couldn’t even fathom the news that Knox just gave us.“Sutton, are you there?”
Sutton“You shot the Gray Lady?” I gasped, not sure why I was so horrified. I mean, she was dead.Brian shook his head. “No, it was an officer. I reacted the moment I caught his uniform. It took me a moment to realize that it was sadly out of date—something from another century.”
Mark“Absolutely not!” I felt outrage laced with fear creep up the back of my neck. “I refuse to let Sutton be bait for a madman.”We were sitting in a conference room down at the police station. There was Candice on the other side of Sutton, Maggie, Brian, Natalie, Knox, and then myself.
SuttonMark ran a finger down the arch of my foot and I flinched, trying not to giggle, but as they say, resistance is futile. He knew how ticklish I was and was taking advantage. Seeing as how he had tied each ankle to opposite bedposts, I was helpless to do anything about his wandering hands.With a raised brow he went into the closet for a moment and came back with a bottle of something and a large pink vibrator.
SuttonAlice and Reena sat in the front pew while Mark and I opted to sit in the one behind them. Father Montgomery, for once in his life, hadn’t said anything nasty to me. I wondered how much of that was because I had Mark on one side and Brian on the other.Candice sat next to Brian and I noticed that they had developed a bit of a friendship. It seemed purely platonic, but Knox didn’t know that. The glare that h
SuttonBring $3 million dollars and the files that Judith Coswell stole from her husband to the Wickshire Cemetery at midnight Saturday if you want to see Margaret again.The words stared me in the face as I re-read a copy of the ransom note over and over again.
Mark“And then this man came up to the house and Reena asked him if he was lost because he kind of looked confused…”Reena shook her head. “No, Alice, you are messing the story up. I asked if he was lost because he walked up and down the drive three times. I didn’t know if he was trying to read the house number, because it’s hard to read with the ivy growing over it.”