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“Shit…I mean, I…honestly, I can’t believe it’d be Scott. They’ve been married for three years, if you saw them out together…”
“That’s exactly her point,” Teri said seeing the disbelief on his face. It made Olivia’s reasons for staying quiet more understandable because Jake usually had no trouble seeing the truth of who someone was. “Yes, they’ve been married for three years. Two of them terror filled every single moment of the day whether he was with her or not. I could get in huge trouble telling you this, but I can deal with losing my license if it saves her life.”
“If it were someone other than him I could probably get something worked out to bring him in without having anything called in but…he’s the wonder boy of the department. No one is going to believe her.”
“How can he possibly be that convincing?” Teri asked, in shock that no one else saw what the man was like. Saw the depth of pain that Olivia was hiding.
“He worked undercover for six years without a single person making him. He’s…a chameleon. I’m telling you, if you saw him with her, you’d be skeptical as well. I’m not saying I don’t believe you,” he stated as her jaw tightened, “that I don’t believe your assessment of Olivia and the truth of what’s she told you. I’m just saying what everyone else is going to if we tried to accuse the guy right now. There’s no way to bring him in on that type of charge and make it stick. I can guarantee there isn’t a single call that’s been made to their place…not one doctor’s visit that will have her name on it or a hint of abuse behind it if Scott was present.”
“So, you’re telling me that she either has to decide to risk running or stay with him?”
“No, it means we’re going to have to set him up for something else…some other charge that we can get him behind bars for and then have her come forward with the charges once it’s guaranteed he’s going to be there for a while,” Jake stated, his eyes cloudy as Teri watched the thoughts play through.
“You think you can pull that off? Take down wonder boy…without him finding out?”
“I don’t know but if you’re right and we don’t try, I can easily see him following through on the threats. He’s one of the best marksmen on the force and he doesn’t shy away from letting everyone know it.”
“Do your best, I’ll hopefully be able to get her to talk to me again. She’s been holding it in for two years and she’s about to break. I don’t want to see her break in a way that can’t be fixed, Jake. What he’s done to her…I wish it were as simple as him smacking her around.”
“I take it it’s a lot worse than that.”
“Let’s just say if I ever met him in a darkened alley, I’d shoot first then say freeze,” she admitted, her face growing darker with her fury of what Olivia had told her. “A razorblade to the throat sounds too good for him.”
“Whoa…I thought that was the worst thing you could come up with,” Jake said, his brow lifting in further shock.
“It was until I heard what he’d done to her, what he’s doing to her. I think he should be given a paralysis that keeps him from being able to move then thrown into a pit with something that will eat him alive.”
“Teri,” he said in disbelief.
“Sorry but this…it’s a new kind of terror I saw in her eyes, and I don’t want to see it ever again in anyone let alone her.”
“I’ll do my best. I’ve met her and she’s incredible. She’s sweet and happy, well, usually,” he said, his eyes thoughtful as he studied her, “but now…I’ve seen it. Not when Scott’s there next to her, but when she thought she was by herself. At the last fundraiser we had, there were moments when she just looked…defeated.”
“You just didn’t want to believe it though, did you?”
“Not of one of us…that the reason for it was because of Scott. I’m going to see what I can dig up from his undercover days. If there’s even the slightest thing that we could nail him on, it’s going to be from that timeframe. I’ll let you know as soon as I find something out.”
“Thanks Jake and if you run into them you cannot let her know that you know…or him.”
“I know Teri. If he finds out she’s dead; I won’t let that happen.”
“Good, I’ll do my best on my end to make sure it doesn’t,” she said as she let him leave.
She prayed she’d just done the right thing. If somehow, Scott did find out it wouldn’t be just Olivia he went after. It’d be everyone she loved or cared about…knew.
Even me, Teri realized before pushing it away. It’d work out…it had to.
Chapter 6
Olivia made her way through the lobby towards the stairs. It’d been almost six months since Scott had broken her ribs and they were finally starting to fully heal and no longer hurt when she took the stairs. They kept her in shape without having to pay a gym membership. Not that Scott would allow her to go to a gym with other men around, especially not when wearing tight workout clothing. He’d be more likely to throw her through a window than let her walk into a gym.
She pushed open the door to the office and sighed with relief when she didn’t see Will. He was too close to figuring the truth out…at least the part of it where she no longer loved Scott. On the other hand, she was far too close to telling him whole truth or at least admitting that she constantly wondered what it’d be like to kiss him.
She had no clue if she could ever let someone that close to her again but seeing if she could with Will was certainly something that had been going through her mind day after day. They were closer, which was why she was pushing him away, confusing him with her attitude lately.
Some days she’d forget about everything outside of the office and simply enjoy spending time with him, being near him. Then others she’d remember what happened when she went home, and she’d snap at him.
She was slowly losing her mind despite her outlet of talking to Teri weekly. Yesterday, Teri had asked her about her feelings for Will and it was now stuck in her head because she didn’t know what they were—just how far it went, the truth of them.
