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Chapters (45)
  1. I know you'll never forgive me...
  2. Part One - Your Father
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Part Two - Your Mother
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. About the Author

Penny leaned into Ruby’s face as she swiped at the necklace again. “Ajax said it was over between the two of you. He was going to leave you.”

Ruby growled from deep in her chest, an animal cry of rage. “You. Little. Liar!”

Her face flushed deep red, practically matching the fire of her hair. With a scream, she flung the necklace into the crowd. Then she grabbed Penny’s wineglass and smashed it down on the table, making jagged edges like teeth. With a swish of her arm, she scored Penny’s cheek with the broken glass, cutting deep, bloody gashes into her skin.

“See how many men you get with that face, you home-wrecking bitch,” Ruby sneered.

Penny stared in silent shock as blood flooded onto her hands.

Then, with a wild scream, she toppled the table, and the two women attacked each other.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Eight

“Why are you talking to me?” Penny shouted at us in the sheriff’s office. “You should be talking to her! She’s the one who started it. She’s the one who did this. Look at me! I mean, look at me!”

Penny touched the gauze pad covering the stitches on her face and began to sob. Darrell and I waited before we tried to say anything more. Despite the late hour, the office buzzed with activity behind us. We’d had to wake up Jerry, who wasn’t happy about the fight, and the sheriff’s wife had gone to Ruby’s house to pick up her kids from the babysitter. Ruby herself was in a holding cell in the basement.

“We are talking to her,” Darrell said quietly. “She’s under arrest.”

“Good!”

“We’ll charge her for the assault on you,” Darrell added. “If that’s what you want.”

Penny looked up from the box of tissues we’d given her. “If that’s what I want? Of course that’s what I want!”

“I thought we might be able to deal with this some other way.”

“Look what she did to me!” Penny screamed again. “The doctor says there could be nerve damage. I’ll have huge scars!”

“I understand. What Ruby did to you was awful. But Ruby’s a mom with three kids, Penny. Ajax was just killed, so she’s on her own to take care of those kids now. And you need to remember—”

I knew he was going to add: You were sleeping with her husband.

But he held back from saying that. He didn’t need to. I watched Penny bite her lip and finish the sentence in her head. Her hands were folded in front of her on the table, and she rubbed her thumbs nervously together.

“Just think about it,” Darrell added. “Okay?”

Penny shrugged but didn’t answer.

“We’d also like to talk to you about Ajax,” I interjected.

“What about him?”