Lily
James stood there , his classically handsome face set in hardlines as he took in the chaps of the room and Alices shouted threat.
His eyes settled on me as I froze on my perch on the overstuffed suitcase.
“Did I just hear someone threaten to shoot someone?” He crosses the room in two long strides. Staring down at the phone like it was a foreign object. “Who am I speaking to please?” He sounded ultra polite and the tone caused the hair to stand up on the back of my neck.
This wasn’t going to go well at all. I could feel it deep down in the pit of my stomach.
“Alice.” Fair play to her Alices voice was rock steady. A year or so ago she would have quaked at the very thought of being questioned by the police but now?
Now she sounded just as scary as her husband.
Maybe more so. W
