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- Author: Maggie Giles
- Language: English
- Genre: Psychological Thrillers
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Melanie Parker
THIS WASN’T THE FIRST GIRL THEY’D ENCOUNTERED IN THE STREET, AND
Mel knew she likely wasn’t the last. Her sour attitude pervaded as her best
friend Jackie crouched next to the girl, trying to shake her awake gently.
The location was strange enough to put Mel on edge. They’d found the
girl, whoever she was, slouched against the wall in a back alleyway behind
a closed club with a swollen cheek, cut lip, and what looked like a forming
black eye. Her bright red hair was mussed and matted with blood. She wore
jeans and a cropped shirt, the latter torn. Whatever had happened to her
hadn’t been good.
As Jackie tried to coax the girl awake, Mel reached for the girl’s
discarded purse, a square silver clutch. It was empty except for an orange
bottle of pills prescribed to someone named Lexi. The drug—Solydexran—
was unknown to Mel and the pills looked big and painful to swallow.
Otherwise, the girl had nothing—no money, no ID—though Mel did find
the glinting diamond bracelet wrapped around her thin wrist quite
appealing.
“Hey, sweetie,” Jackie asked. “You okay?”
Jackie was always so kind and gentle, and often Mel wondered how
they’d grown so close over the past year. They couldn’t be more different.
Not that Mel didn’t care about the girl or what had happened to her, but this
wasn’t the first one they’d come across and, more than once, it had meant
bad news.
The girl blinked several times before her brown eyes focused on Jackie.
She drew a sharp breath, then her hand flew up to her head, and a groan
escaped her lips.
“Hey, sit still.” Jackie caught her hand. “You look pretty beat up.” She
glanced back at Mel with a concerned gaze. Mel didn’t budge. She knew
exactly what Jackie wanted to do. She was always the saviour, bringing
home lost and broken girls. The whole thing was getting old, especially
when the girls disappeared the next morning … usually with something
precious stolen from their house.
“Lexi?” Mel asked, trying the name on the bottle of pills.
The girl’s gaze found Mel and her brow crinkled. “No, Candice …
Candy usually.” She glanced around, a nervous look in her eyes as if trying
to find an escape. There was nowhere to go, and even if there were, she
wouldn’t get far from the looks of her. She possibly also had a concussion.
Mel grimaced. Why would this woman have someone else’s pills? In her
twenty-eight years, Mel knew that meant only one of two things. Druggie.
Thief.
“I’d say it’s a pleasure to meet you, but you don’t look so good.” Jackie
reached out and touched the bracelet Mel had been admiring. “That’s
pretty.”
Candy’s eyes darted to it. Confusion clouded her gaze. “Uh, yeah,
thanks.” She tried to shift and winced. “How did you find me?”
Jackie glanced back at Mel. “We were taking a shortcut home. And I’m
glad we did.”
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