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She stood up and was leaning against the car. “No witnesses,” she said.
“Then let me hear what happened,” Mac said to her. “You first.” He turned to the kid. “Go get your license and registration and insurance information. As you can tell, she is prepared.”
She had everything in her hand and gave it to Mac. He had a tablet in his hand ready to listen to what she had to say. “I stopped at the four-way stop. There was no one there. I moved forward. I don’t even think I was up to fifteen miles an hour when I got rammed in the side.”
“That’s a lie,” the kid yelled. “I stopped and was moving forward and her car came out of nowhere.”
“Are you kidding, Mac? You and I know damn well what happened by looking at the accident.”
She turned to see Duke striding toward them. These two men were big and intimidating. “Duke,” Mac said. “What are you doing here?”
“Hadley called me to come get her. On top of that, it seems as if she is being all but attacked for something she is the victim of. How come you aren’t doing anything about it?”
“Duke,” she said, putting her hand on his arm. “Stop. The chief is going to do his job and I’m sure he can figure out what happened here.”
“She caused this accident,” the kid yelled. “I’m telling you right now, Dad, she did it. I stopped.”
Duke all but snarled at the people who were starting to realize the connection she had to the men here. The Bond family men of the island.
It shouldn’t make a difference. If she was at fault she’d own up to it. But she wasn’t.
Not that she could get a word in edgewise. These people were all intense and her heart was racing and her palms were sweaty.
She just wanted it over with, but it was going to take time to sort it out, she was sure.
“Do you hear that?” the woman said. “My son said he didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Enough,” Mac said. “All of you. I know my job and I know what happened here. Itisobvious to anyone looking, not that I need someone pointing it out to me.” Mac had his eyes on Duke.
“That she didn’t stop,” the mother said.
“Stop talking,” the father said quietly to his wife.
“But Bobby said—”
“Stop,” the husband all but growled as he was looking at the accident now that things were being pointed out.
“By the placement and the impact on Ms. Breaton’s car, she was hit. The amount of damage sustained indicates that Bobby’s car was goingat leastforty, not to mention the skid marks when he tried to brake. If Bobby had stopped and was just starting, and Ms. Breaton was the one who didn’t stop, she’d have sideswipe marks all down the side of her car as if she was in motion, not hit and come to a stop.Andstop all the way on the other side of the road.”
There was silence there. It was exactly what happened. “I didn’t even see him. I just felt the impact,” she said. “I should have been paying more attention.”
“So it’s her fault,” Bobby yelled. His face was red now.
Duke went to open his mouth and she put her hand on his arm and shook her head. “Let it go,” she said.
“You don’t need to be treated this way,” he said to her.
“Mac is handling it,” she said.
“I’m going to call my cousin Carter to come get your car,” Duke said. “You aren’t going to be able to drive it.”
She wanted to argue, but she had said she didn’t know who to call for anything so she had to let it go for now and be happy he was taking care of this for her. She’d figure it all out after the fact.
“Bobby,” Mac said. “You ran through the stop sign. The damage on impact tells me you were speeding also. Tell me what happened, and remember, you don’t want to give false information to law enforcement. I already know you’re at fault for the accident. The evidence tells the truth.”
“Tell Chief Bond what happened,” Bobby’s father said. “Did you just not realize you had to stop until it was too late?”
Hadley could see that the father was coaching his son on what to say. If the kid was smart he’d just admit that much and end it, but she could see he wasn’t. “Stacy was texting me. We were fighting. I was texting her back to—”
