Big Sexy: Mercy Springs Heroes Series Book 1

and Cade like they were objects under a microscope. Finally, Kresley couldn’t take it any longer and asked her sisters to give her and Cade some privacy so he could interview her. She told them that she would be down to work at lunch. She followed them to the door and shut it, securing one lock. Cade cocked one dark eye brow at that and Kresley quickly told him that her sisters are nosy nellies and she wouldn’t put it past them to come barging in and interrupting. Cade nodded once and motioned her to come back to him with his fingers.

Kresley sat back down and finished her donut, feeling Cade’s fingers slide over her long, red hair, over and over in a soothing motion.

“You have such beautiful hair, Red. It’s like a river of fire in my hand. I don’t think any company could replicate this exact shade of red. It’s so unique and so you. Beautiful and one of a kind”, Cade huskily stated, standing close to Kresley’s side. His fingers continued to stroke her hair and pass fingertips over her shoulder and arm.

Kresley took hold of his hand to end the distraction, but couldn’t find it possible to let go of Cade’s hand all together. So, she brought it to her lips, planted a sweet kiss in his palm, closed his fingers around it, then dropped his hand back to his side. She wiped her mouth with a napkin and stood up, indicating with an arm for him to move over to her L-shaped sectional couch on the other side of the apartment. “I’m ready to answer your questions, Cade. I just don’t know what info I could possibly have that would help you with what happened yesterday”, Kresley softly said, looking up at the big man standing near her.

Cade drew in a deep breath and shoved his personal emotions aside, concentrating on Kresley as a victim and possible witness and not as the woman that he wanted to see and feel beneath him on that couch. Detective switch turned on. Boyfriend-wanna-be switch turned off.

“Okay, Kresley. Let’s go ahead and get the questions over with so I can get a timeline of events for my chief and figure out motive. I’m going to be recording our interview, just to let you know. You’re going to see and hear me being a detective. Awesome Cade who wants to kiss your pants off will be absent for now”, Cade told Kres, ending with a sweet smile to reassure her that even though Cade would be all business in his questions, Big Sexy was still there, just waiting in the background.

Both adults sat down close together on the couch and Cade turned the recording app on his smartphone to record, indicating to Kresley silently with a finger that they were now being recorded. Cade’s interview style was easy, but thorough and he put Kresley at ease within the first few questions.

Cade: Today’s date is April 20^th, 2019. Detective Cade Grantham with Mercy Springs Police Department is present, along with Ms. Kresley Anderson. Ms. Anderson can you state your full name, date of birth and current physical address for the record.

Kresley: My name is Kresley James Anderson. Date of birth is October 31st, 1988, age 30. I live at 2448 River Ave., Mercy Springs, Georgia.

Cade: This interview is being conducted in the home apartment of Ms. Kresley Anderson and she gives consent for it to be recorded. Ms. Anderson, will you give your verbal consent for this recording to be completed?

Kresley: I consent to recording our interview.

Cade: Ms. Anderson, do you personally know a man by the name of Drake Harris?

Kresley: Yes, I know Drake and his family. I’ve known them my entire life. I went to school with Drake and his brother, Braxton and graduated with Drake in the same year together.

Cade: How would you describe your relationship with Drake Harris, considering both past and present?

Kresley: Yesterday was the first day that I have been in close proximity to Drake since high school. Living in the same small town, we have been at the same events and even the same room before, but we haven’t spoken to each other or been within 20 feet of each other since school. Drake and I dated for a year in high school, our senior year, and I broke up with him a month before we graduated. That was my last personal encounter with him until yesterday, when he and his fiancé, Claudia, came in to my events business together. They were finalizing details about their upcoming wedding. I had a 30-minute meeting with both of them in the room with me and my sister Francie Anderson, some questions were asked and answered and then they left. I continued to work and didn’t hear anymore from either customer after that. I did not see Drake again yesterday until I opened my business back door and saw him laying on the pavement, with a blood stain around his head.

Cade: Just so we can have all pertinent information at the beginning, can you tell me why you broke up with Mr. Harris in high school. Did it end badly? Was there any hard feelings or animosity between you two? I’m asking so we can have a base of problems to look at and discard.

Kresley: *lengthy pause* *clear throat* I was the one to break off things with Drake a month before we graduated high school. We had plans to attend the same college, him on an academic scholarship. Drake was caught having sex with one of our senior teachers. I had no clue it was going on. I was humiliated since the whole school of faculty and students found out the next day and could watch the sex video online of Drake and the teacher….uhhhhh…..having intense sexual relations with each other in a classroom. And cafeteria. And football field. I broke up with him that day and told him to stay away from me. It was