If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Alex Finlay
- Language: English
- Genre: Thriller / Suspense
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MONTEPULCIANO, ITALY
It’s been five years and she’s the first woman—first person—to make Ryan
smile.
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“Why do you want to be a lawyer?” Nora Watanabe asks.
They sit at a tall table at the bar—the only place walking distance from
their bed-and-breakfast. It’s barely ten o’clock, but the place is clearing out.
Everything in Montepulciano closes early, even the bars and nightclubs.
“What, are we on a job interview?” Ryan replies, smiling at her tenacity.
It’s the third time she’s asked. Across the room he sees their classmate
Eddie striking out with Italian women who are pretending not to speak
English.
Nora narrows her eyes, offers a faint smile of her own.
If Ryan answers her question neither of them will be smiling. The idea
to attend law school started five years ago with the criminal defense lawyer
Ryan’s dad hired when the questions from the police became more pointed:
Had you and Alison been fighting? Were you breaking up? Why didn’t you
call the police immediately? How could you not see anything?
They were fair inquiries. There were no clues, no leads, no trace of Ali
or her father’s BMW.
Over time, the investigators grew impatient, outwardly suspicious.
You’re a big guy, why didn’t you put up a fight? How could someone just
take her?
But it was their last question—What did you do to her, Ryan?—that
alarmed Ryan’s dad enough that they hired Marty Salinger. Marty came into
the interrogation room, told the police Ryan was done talking, and to arrest
him or let him go.
They let him go.
But he wasn’t free. Not from the suspicions. Not from his own guilt
over failing to protect her. Not from his inability to deliver the authorities
one viable clue.
Ryan even went to a hypnotist. In the session, he’d recovered a
nanosecond of a memory. A face. A plain face, one that the sketch artist
threw up his hands over. And there was the vision of two hands—each one
missing the pinky finger—dragging Ryan out of the car. The therapist
termed it more of a nightmare, a guilt-fueled image of a monster, than a
memory.
Ryan is spared Nora’s further interrogation when Eddie plops down on
the stool next to them. Ryan agreed to come out tonight only because the
others in their group are tiring of Eddie. They’re the elite few in their 1L
class who made it on to The Georgetown Law Journal, a student-run
publication for the best and brightest that no one reads. An alumnus donor
funds the summer trip every year as a bonding experience for the new
editorial staff members with the highest grades. Ryan initially declined the
invitation, he found it all a bit too privileged, but was pressured to come by
his roommate. Eddie begged him. Said the others wouldn’t hang out with
him unless Ryan came along.
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