A Beach House Beginning (THE WOMEN OF BRAMBLEBERRY HOUSE #6) by RaeAnne Thayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“Jenna? Are you still there?”
Jenna Haynes slowly lowered herself to one of the kitchen chairs of her
apartment on the second floor of Brambleberry House. Her cell phone
nearly slipped from fingers that suddenly trembled.
“I…yes. I’m here.” Her voice sounded hollow, thready.
“I know this must be coming as a shock to you.” Angela Terry, the
prosecuting attorney who had worked on the Oregon part of her case, spoke
in a low, calming voice. “Believe me, we were all stunned, too. I never
expected this. I’m sorry to call you so early but I wanted to reach out to you
as soon as we heard the news.”
“Thank you. I appreciate that.”
“Seriously, what a shock. It’s so hard to believe, when Barker was only
halfway through his sentence. Who expects a guy in the prime of his life to
go to sleep in his cell one night and never wake up? You know what they
say. Karma drives a big bus and she knows everybody’s address.”
Jenna didn’t know how to answer, still trying to process the stunning
news that the man she had feared for three years was truly gone.
On the heels of her shock came an overwhelming relief. A man was dead.
She couldn’t forget that. Still, the man had made her life a nightmare for a
long time.
“You’re…you’re positive he’s dead?”
“The warden called me to confirm it himself, as soon as the medical
examiner determined it was from natural causes. An aneurysm.”
“An aneurysm? Seriously?”
“That’s what the warden said. Who knows, Barker might have had a
brain anomaly all along. What else would cause a decorated police officer
to go off the rails like he did and spend years stalking, threatening and
finally attacking you and others?”
Jenna fought down an instinctive shiver as the terrifying events of two
years earlier crawled out from the lockbox of memories where she tried to
store them for safekeeping.
Dead. The boogeyman who had haunted her nightmares for so long was
gone.
She still couldn’t quite believe it, even hearing it from a woman she
trusted and admired, a woman who had fought hard to make sure Aaron
Barker would remain behind bars for the maximum allowable sentence,
which had been entirely too short a time as far as Jenna was concerned.
Jenna didn’t know how she was supposed to feel, now that she knew he
couldn’t get out in a few years to pick up where he left off.
“I hope I didn’t wake you, but I wanted you to know as soon as
possible.”
The concern in her voice warmed Jenna. Angela had been an unending
source of calm and comfort, even during the most stressful of times during
the trial.
“No. I’m glad you called. I appreciate it.”
Slowly, her brain seemed to reengage and she remembered the polite
niceties she owed this woman who had fought with such fierce
determination for her.
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