Chapter 139 : Comfort Food with My Comfort Person

*Shelby*

“We have more news this morning about the accidental drowning that happened just off the coast of the Bahamas this weekend. It turns out there may have been more nefarious intentions of the drowning victim than what we were first told.

“The deceased man, thirty-five-year-old Blaine Blake, was currently being investigated for blackmail and first-degree murder committed earlier this spring. The two others on the boat at the time were the deceased’s half-brother, Michael Astor, and his Mr. Astor’s fiancee, who still remains unnamed. According to police reports, both Mr. Astor and his fiancee were being blackmailed by Blake,” the news anchor reported.

I pulled the pillow closer to my chest, wrapping it in a bear hug as if it could protect me from the media storm that was brewing.