Read Online Deadly Sin (Cassandra Farbanks) by Sonnet O'Dell - Free Book Online
Authors: Sonnet O'Dell
Tags: Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, series, Vampires, Halloween, Modern, Urban, Romantic, stalker, Werewolf, phoenix, Seven Deadly Sins, Eternal Press, Cassandra, Farbanks, Sonnet ODell, comical, October, 9781615729357
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knew he wasn’t in.
“He’s just popped downstairs to the lab.”
“I’ll just wait in his office then till he gets back.” He was going to object but the set of my shoulders brooked no discussion. I pushed open the door, went inside and shut it behind me. I watched his silhouette through the glass as he walked around to his desk and picked up the phone. I knew he was calling Hamilton back upstairs which was fine by me. I wouldn’t have to wait long. There was a manila folder sitting on Hamilton’s desk he’d been reading when he got a call to go down to the lab. Thinking it might be information pertinent to the case – okay, I was just being plain nosy – I turned the file so I could read what was inside. There were three pieces of paper. One was a grainy photocopy of a birth certificate for Ozborne Farbanks listing his parents as a V. Toogood and a H. Farbanks. The second was a print out of a marriage license of Ozborne Farbanks to a woman whose name was so scribbled you could only just about make out that her initials were M and perhaps a D, B or R. The last page was a search from the national database of marriages, births and deaths for Worcester where my name had been put in but there were no results.
I was stunned to complete silence. Even my breathing stopped just for a minute. Was Hamilton investigating me? He’d been searching for my birth certificate and found no record of my birth. Which after a minute of thinking, its absence made sense to me. My mother hid me. She had a home birth and wouldn’t register that fact.
The thing was I knew I had one. I’d seen it. It had my name, date of birth and my parents listed as Morganna and Ozborne Farbanks. It wasn’t a forgery. They waited till they’d crossed over to register me. They had forty two days to do it. I got back to the matter at hand. Why was Hamilton digging into my past? I could show him a copy of my birth certificate if he just asked me. They’d be the same in both worlds or near enough. I heard a voice outside the door and saw a hand turning the knob.
Hamilton came in and found me sitting in one of his guest chairs, the folder exactly the way it was when I walked into the room. I looked up at him and he looked uncertain for a moment, expecting me to jump down his throat about investigating me. I beamed at him and he relaxed, incorrectly thinking that I hadn’t read the file. That I’d been a good girl and just sat in a chair and waited. That was what I wanted him to believe for the moment. I was still wrapping my head around it. There were few people I thought I could trust and I thought Hamilton had been one of them. I didn’t want him to know that I knew he was investigating me. It would be an unspoken secret between us. He walked around his desk with another manila folder in his hand, nonchalantly using it to move the other one to his filing tray.
“I’m glad to see you Cassandra. I take it you’re here because you’ve got something.”
“I might have but I think we should talk about a couple of other things first.” He paused on the way down into his chair, looking distinctly guilty about something. I pointed to the folder on the desk.
“Is that the autopsy report? Do we finally have cause of death for…” I let my sentence drop off, obliging him with a slow slice of my hand to tell me the man’s name. Hamilton relaxed back into his chair.
“Callaghan, John Callaghan. Yes, Doc Cameron just finished compiling his findings from the autopsy and Doctor Soltaire’s finding from last night.” I motioned with my hand for him to continue.
“So what did John Callaghan die of?”
“He drowned.” I arched a brow and shook my head sure I had misheard him.
“He drowned? How? We found him in the dining room, not the pool.” Did the house even have a pool?
“You can drown in other things than water, Cassandra.” He said, shaking his head.
“Okay, color me confused. How did he drown?” Hamilton opened up the report
“He’s just popped downstairs to the lab.”
“I’ll just wait in his office then till he gets back.” He was going to object but the set of my shoulders brooked no discussion. I pushed open the door, went inside and shut it behind me. I watched his silhouette through the glass as he walked around to his desk and picked up the phone. I knew he was calling Hamilton back upstairs which was fine by me. I wouldn’t have to wait long. There was a manila folder sitting on Hamilton’s desk he’d been reading when he got a call to go down to the lab. Thinking it might be information pertinent to the case – okay, I was just being plain nosy – I turned the file so I could read what was inside. There were three pieces of paper. One was a grainy photocopy of a birth certificate for Ozborne Farbanks listing his parents as a V. Toogood and a H. Farbanks. The second was a print out of a marriage license of Ozborne Farbanks to a woman whose name was so scribbled you could only just about make out that her initials were M and perhaps a D, B or R. The last page was a search from the national database of marriages, births and deaths for Worcester where my name had been put in but there were no results.
I was stunned to complete silence. Even my breathing stopped just for a minute. Was Hamilton investigating me? He’d been searching for my birth certificate and found no record of my birth. Which after a minute of thinking, its absence made sense to me. My mother hid me. She had a home birth and wouldn’t register that fact.
The thing was I knew I had one. I’d seen it. It had my name, date of birth and my parents listed as Morganna and Ozborne Farbanks. It wasn’t a forgery. They waited till they’d crossed over to register me. They had forty two days to do it. I got back to the matter at hand. Why was Hamilton digging into my past? I could show him a copy of my birth certificate if he just asked me. They’d be the same in both worlds or near enough. I heard a voice outside the door and saw a hand turning the knob.
Hamilton came in and found me sitting in one of his guest chairs, the folder exactly the way it was when I walked into the room. I looked up at him and he looked uncertain for a moment, expecting me to jump down his throat about investigating me. I beamed at him and he relaxed, incorrectly thinking that I hadn’t read the file. That I’d been a good girl and just sat in a chair and waited. That was what I wanted him to believe for the moment. I was still wrapping my head around it. There were few people I thought I could trust and I thought Hamilton had been one of them. I didn’t want him to know that I knew he was investigating me. It would be an unspoken secret between us. He walked around his desk with another manila folder in his hand, nonchalantly using it to move the other one to his filing tray.
“I’m glad to see you Cassandra. I take it you’re here because you’ve got something.”
“I might have but I think we should talk about a couple of other things first.” He paused on the way down into his chair, looking distinctly guilty about something. I pointed to the folder on the desk.
“Is that the autopsy report? Do we finally have cause of death for…” I let my sentence drop off, obliging him with a slow slice of my hand to tell me the man’s name. Hamilton relaxed back into his chair.
“Callaghan, John Callaghan. Yes, Doc Cameron just finished compiling his findings from the autopsy and Doctor Soltaire’s finding from last night.” I motioned with my hand for him to continue.
“So what did John Callaghan die of?”
“He drowned.” I arched a brow and shook my head sure I had misheard him.
“He drowned? How? We found him in the dining room, not the pool.” Did the house even have a pool?
“You can drown in other things than water, Cassandra.” He said, shaking his head.
“Okay, color me confused. How did he drown?” Hamilton opened up the report
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