Dinner with the Blakemores (The Blakemore Files Book 5)

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parents?  They need to be dressed with full bellies and ready to go in 45 minutes.”  He looked at her stomach. “The same goes for you two.  Food, water, snacks in a bag.  We have wheels up in less than two hours.”
    Odessa wanted to ask questions, but if Saxton was calling for the plane, it had to be bad.  How bad, she didn’t know and she wasn’t sure she wanted to know. However, in her condition, surprises were not welcomed.
    Curiosity and fear for her sister pushed her to ask the question, “Saxton, is Dwight dead?”
    “Not to my knowledge,” he responded to his wife.  He gave the same response again fifteen minutes later after he spoke with his friend and lead agent in the CIA, Marecus Roget.
    “What do you need from me, Blakemore?” Agent Roget asked into the line.
    Saxton understood how the justice system worked.  The more money you had the better lawyer you could afford. The better lawyer you could afford, the less likely your chances were of ending up in a dark cell fighting off predators in the wee hours of the morning.  Dark cells filled with greedy predators who intentionally sought to abuse and destroy your self-esteem, reducing the strongest being to a pile of nothing.
    “I need the best defense lawyer you can get for me in Corpus Christie. I need them up, dressed and headed over to the house to meet Ryanne,” he told him before swallowing a cup of decaf, gnawing into a whole wheat bagel with reduced fat cream cheese, as he stuck the keys into the ignition, turned over the engine, and backed out of the driveway. Odessa was riding shotgun and holding on to the oh shit bar as he yanked at the gearshift, putting the truck into drive and heading towards her parents’ home. He slowed the truck for a minute and placed his hand over her belly. His son was awake and moving about. “Everything is going to be okay,” he said to his wife and it also calmed the child.
    After only two years and six months of marriage, Odessa’s parents, Big Sarge and Dora Trodat, understood the type of man their daughter, Odessa, had married.  Saxton Blakemore was a stand up type of man who fought for the little person and enjoyed taking out the bad guy.  Their eldest daughter, Ryanne, they were certain, had married everything that Saxton Blakemore was against. A bad guy pretending to be a loving husband. As much as they wanted to scream at the top of their lungs that something wasn’t right about Dwight, time, patience, and the choices of their children were things over which they had no control.
    Only six months into the marriage and they all dreaded the worse – that Ryanne had killed her husband; something each member in the family feared would happen. It really wouldn’t be that big of a shocker because changes in Ryanne’s behavior became noticeable after only two months of marriage.  Her phone calls became fewer.  Face time ceased after Dora commented on how haggard she was looking. The fire that used to be in her eyes was a dull gaze. Four months into the marriage, a concerned Odessa traveled to Corpus Christie to spend a weekend with her big sister, but had to leave early.  It was too uncomfortable for everyone involved. Ryanne was on pins and needles and Dwight was rolling up the welcome mat.
    “She’s my sister and I will visit any damn time I feel like it, Dwight,” she told him and sat firmly in the chair.  Even pregnant, Odessa dared him to make a move towards her. She knew the man was a cunning snake, but Big Sarge had taught his daughters well.
    No man was going to rule them, least of all a weak one like Dwight.
     

Chapter 4. Buckle up …
     
    There were so many changes and challenges occurring with Odessa’s family.  As Big Sarge secured the front door, she watched her father’s movements, which had begun to get slower over the past few months as the pain in his right hip increased. Her mother, however, had not lost a step.  It still confounded her to no end how the woman had an

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