Her Deepest Fear

‘You’re right,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what you went through, but I still can’t agree with what you’re doing. If you believe your mother died under suspicious circumstances, the right thing to do would be to call the police and let them launch an investigation. Private revenge is not true justice. If you go down that road, it’s only going to end with you behind b—’ ‘Are you kidding me?’ Liam sneered. ‘The police? How naïve are you, Kira? The police report to the mayor, and the mayor answers to the McCarthys, who run Stamford. No one can touch them.’ Kira looked up at him. ‘You’re also a McCarthy. Your mom…Are you sure she was killed by someone from the family?’ ‘You don’t believe me?’ There was ice in Liam’s voice. ‘The last person my mother saw was Austyn’s mom. That bitch had always had it in for my mom. She went out of her way to make my mom’s life miserable.’ Kira held her tongue. The way she saw it, Austyn’s mother did nothing wrong. She was the legal wife of the old Mr McCarthy.