Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

But my mother was a different story. She knew what
inviting him into our lives would mean. She knew his end
game here, and she didn’t protect me.
And as much as Ari and I didn’t get along, I didn’t want
her suffering.
And Damon would make her life hell. What he’d said in
the car was no doubt accurate. She’d be popping pills to dull
the pain of his treatment sooner or later. How could my mother
let this happen? Was she really that scared to lose her home?
Was she that worried about how we’d survive?
Or did that intimate look between her and Damon’s father
I’d seen when I was a little girl finally make sense?
My mother had an affair with him, didn’t she? Perhaps it
wasn’t only fear that controlled her.
And despite what they were willing to endure, I wouldn’t
let them make that decision for me.
“We could get married,” Ethan said, his usually light and
playful voice, low with a sultry tone.
And despite my nerves, I snorted. “That won’t stop him. It
won’t even give him pause.”
Having a husband wouldn’t even protect me from Damon
Torrance.
“Ah, shit,” Ethan breathed out.
“What?”
“Cops. Behind me.”
Cops? We’d only been driving a few minutes. I hadn’t felt
the turn onto the highway yet, so we were still on my country
road. There were never cops out here. I knew that, because
how many times had my sister sped up and down this road as a
teenager with me in the car and never gotten caught?
“Are their lights on?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
“We’re still on Shadow Point?”