Daddy's Girl

353 Pages·2008·1.38 MB·English

by  Lisa Scottoline

DADDY’S
GIRL
Lisa Scottoline
For teachers ever ywhere, with gratitude
I am all the daughters of my
father’s house,
And all the brothers too.
—william shakespeare,
Twelfth Night, act 2, scene 4

Contents
Epigraph iii
Chapter 1
Nat Greco felt like an A cup in a double-D… 1
Chapter 2
After class was over, Nat said goodbye to McConnell, who… 9
Chapter 3
Nat shook off the cold night air, set the Whole… 13
Chapter 4
Nat and Angus were driving in his sunflower-yellow VW Beetle… 23
Chapter 5
Once inside the prison, Nat and Angus produced ID, left… 32
Chapter 6
LET HER GO!” Angus shouted, and the sheer terror in… 41
Chapter 7
Wrapped in a thin blue blanket, Nat sat on a… 46
Chapter 8
Up close, Angus’s face was a wreck. Under the gauze… 51
Chapter 9
Nat closed her apartment door and stepped into the cozy… 59
Chapter 10
Nat’s hair was still damp from her morning shower when… 67
Chapter 11
Nat sat, allegedly concentrating, in her small modern office. She’d… 74
Chapter 12
The country sky was ice blue and so cold that… 81
Chapter 13
Nat and Angus threaded their way to the front door… 87
Chapter 14
The ride to the prison was barely long enough… 93
Chapter 15
It was Domestic Initiative Night, and Nat stood at the… 102
Chapter 16
The next day, Nat was trying to focus on teaching… 109
Chapter 17
The day was cold and overcast, but the drive still… 118
Chapter 18
Sorry about the delay, Willie,” Angus said. He introduced Nat… 123
Chapter 19
The examining room was small and ringed with white metal… 134
Chapter 20
You wanted to see me?” Nat asked from the threshold… 146
Chapter 21
Students in peaked Tibetan hats, red-and-white-checked keffiyeh… 151
Chapter 22
Nat steered the Volvo along the last stretch of country… 157
Chapter 23
The two women stood over a square hole almost as… 164
Chapter 24
Nat felt beside the door for a switch, then stopped… 170
Chapter 25
An hour later, Nat found herself at the Avondale barracks… 175
Chapter 26
Nat went through the preliminaries as if they were happening… 183
Chapter 27
Nat sat in the passenger seat of Brooke’s Mercedes coupe… 193
Chapter 28
Nat came downstairs with the borrowed sweatsuit in hand, dressed… 201
Chapter 29
Rain lashed her bedroom windows, and Nat tossed and turned,… 209
Chapter 30
The woman wore a maroon fleece top with a pair… 214
Chapter 31
Nat hustled to the Kia in the cold, wrapping the… 221
Chapter 32
Nat stood still, confused at the sight. Dominating the waiting… 224
Chapter 33
Nat tore out of the parking lot, turned onto the… 233
Chapter 34
Nat hit the cheesy motel room, threw her stuff on… 237
Chapter 35
Afterward they lay happily together in the dark, and Nat… 245
Chapter 36
The sky was still black, and starbursts of frost remained… 250
Chapter 37
Nat turned and ran for the mall entrance, its twin… 258
Chapter 38
Nat had to think fast. The cop could outrun her… 266
Chapter 39
Nat had no idea what happened. She sat splayed at… 270
Chapter 40
Nat stared stunned at the carved initials illuminated by the… 276
Chapter 41
Nat had to work quickly. She drove farther up the road… 281
Chapter 42
Wake up!” a man was saying. “You’re fine, kid. Walk… 286
Chapter 43
Say hello to the warden, everybody!” shouted a brawny inmate. 289
Chapter 44
Nat sat in her chair in the dingy interview room,… 293
Chapter 45
Nat entered the hospital room in intensive care where Paul… 297
Chapter 46
Ms. Greco, look over here!” a photographer shouted, one of the… 302
Chapter 47
Weeks later, Nat had started the next chapter in her… 308
Chapter 48
Nat sat parked along the side of the road… 315