Love the Second Time Around

Chapter 36 Despair

I stared dumbly at the officers who were cuffing me up. “What are you doing?”

Vice squad? Battery? And then realization struck me. So Julius and Coraline set me up so I’d admit that I was the one who injured her? Just so they can call the cops on me and take my property for themselves?

I was still married to Julius, after all, so if I were to serve jail time, Julius should be able to get his hands on my money since he was my husband. I didn’t know if that was true, but I was starting to panic.

It was then I realized why Dominic wanted me to stay at home. Sh*t. I should have listened to him. The guy didn’t even know I was going to get arrested, so nobody was probably going to come to my rescue.

Before I was taken away by the police, I saw Julius grinning cruelly at me.

If you had told me this was the way I’d get taken into custody a few weeks back, I’d call you crazy, but here I was. The officers took me to the interrogation room the first chance they got, and they started questioning me.

I was terrified and panicked, but I knew I mustn’t show any fear, or else I’d incriminate myself. The only way for me to get out of this was by telling them the truth and nothing but the truth since I didn’t hurt Coraline on purpose.

But it didn’t seem to work, since the officers seemed to trust Julius and Coraline more than they trusted me. The interrogation went on for god knew how long, but eventually it came to an end.

Just then, I remembered James telling me that Dominic would come back later, so I asked the officer, “Sir, can I call my friend?”

someone to back you up, eh? Give it up. We won’t do anything to you if you’re really innocent. Just tell us the

the room, and the guy seemed nice. He didn’t say I could call anyone, but I thought I had a chance, so I continued, “I told you everything I know, officer—the truth and nothing but the truth. Please just let me call my friend.

best behavior since I was arrested, so the officer looked at me for a moment and actually

five minutes, so make

realize it was already seven. There weren’t any missed calls or texts, so I wondered if

it up. For the first time in my life, ten seconds felt like an eternity. Eventually, the officer rushed me again, so I ended the call in a panic and dialed his

didn’t go through up until the very end. Left with no choice, I had to text him about my arrest. When I was about to make another call, the officer took my

heart sank. Is this it? Am I all on my

started, but I had nothing more to say, so I repeated the same thing during the first

getting to my wits’ end. Then someone

“Ms. Zanetti!”

lo and behold, Calvin was there. “You’re finally here, Calvin.” The moment I saw him, my tension melted away like butter

was the last thought that ran through my mind before everything

and a faint scent of disinfectant hung in the air. I’m in a hospital,

around, but there was nobody to be found. Pushing myself up, I tried to get some water. Then, someone opened the door, and Calvin came in

take it for you.” Calvin knew what I was trying to do, so he filled a glass with

I gulped