“You’re upset, what’s wrong?”
“The two women from the restaurant are here and they’ve called the police to have me arrested for trespassing.”
He curses under his breath. “I’m five minutes away, Sirena. Make sure the officers know that, okay? And I promise everything is going to be fine.” He breathes heavily. “I’m going to put a stop to her meddling ways once and for all when I get there. Hold tight, honey.”
“Alright.” I end the call and slowly lower my hand to my lap and focus on what’s being said by the door. Both officers seem to be annoyed as the sister-in-law waves her arms toward me, her face getting redder the she talks.
The younger of the two officers moves over to me and crouches down. “I’m Officer Sheridan, are you okay? Can I get you a drink of water maybe?”
I shake my head no and let the tears fall. “I live here,” I whisper.
“Mrs. Hudson says that she often comes over to her brother-in-laws house and that he would have told her if he had a woman living with him.”
I hold the officer’s gaze and he smiles before continuing, “Something tells me he
doesn’t tell her anywhere near as much as she’d like.”
Wiping my tears, I offer him a wry smile. “I agree.”
“You called him?”
I nod.
“Good, she’s giving me a headache and my partners about to loose his temper.” He grins and hearing a car come to a speeding stop outside, he stands.
We all look to the open front door and in dashes a disheveled looking Garrett. His eyes frantically search and then land on me but when he takes a step the sister-in-law gets in the way.
“Garrett, I’m glad you’re here. That woman has broken into your house and was just awful to us. You need to sort this out.”
Garrett’s face tightens as he faces her. “Jenny,” he says with anger lacing his voice, “get out of my way.”
She stills and Garrett steps around her before coming to my side were he picks me up and sits back down with me on his lap. He then caresses my face and kisses me all to briefly on the lips before resting his forehead against mine. “I’m so angry with her,” he whispers.
“I know.”
Garrett kisses me one last time and loosening his tie looks at the women and officers.
“Jenny, why are you and Annalise in my home without being invited?” he asks and Jenny blushes while Annalise looks at her friend.
“Apparently she comes over often,” I inform him and his eyes narrow.
“Jenny?”
“We’re family of course I come over often to make sure you’re alright,” Jenny offers.
Garrett shakes his head and turns to the officers. “I’m sorry she has wasted your time. I’ll let her explain her reasoning to you because I have no clue.” He asks Jenny, “Where did you get the key to let yourself in without my permission?”
She squirms. “William gave it to me.”
“My brother has a spare key for emergency’s only. What was the emergency?” He raises a brow, and now I’m finding the whole thing annoying on Garrett’s behalf but entertaining as well as Jenny blushes furiously.
“We thought we’d leave you dinner.” Jenny sits on the sofa close to us while the younger officer watches from the side and the older one stands guard at the front door.
But in response to Jenny’s answer I snort in disbelief. “I was upstairs and heard part of your conversation about how Annalise was going to stay here and wait for Garrett.”
“That’s not true!” Jenny stands furious.
Garrett kisses me cheek and gently places me in the chair as he stands with his hand out. “Key! Now Jenny.”