07 In Sheep's Clothing by Rett MacPherson

Author:Rett MacPherson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781466888821
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Time had gotten away from me. By the time I pulled up in front of the marina, I expected to find Rudy and Colin sitting outside with their fishing gear in their hands and scowls on their faces. Instead, I found an ambulance, a sheriff’s car, and a coroner. I had barely stopped the truck when I threw the door open and jumped out. I ran inside the marina as fast as I could, heart thudding with an adrenaline boost.

“Torie,” Rudy said and grabbed me by the arm. “Am I glad to see you.”

“What is going on?”

“What happened to your eye?” he asked.

“Oh, Roberta punched me.”

He just stared at me for a minute and then he shook his head. He looked as if he’d eaten something that didn’t agree with him. As if he were ready to puke at any moment. “Somebody killed Brian Bloomquist.”

“What?” I asked. “Why? How?”

Rudy seemed to be a little pasty, too. “I don’t know why, but the how … Seems to be a knife in the jugular.”

I gasped. “Oh, no,” I said, and covered my mouth.

“That’s not the worst of it,” he said and hugged me.

“What? What else could be worse?” Suddenly I realized that Colin was nowhere around. “Oh, no. Not Colin.” All I could think about was my mother’s happiness shattering into a million pieces. She’d spent so many years alone and all of a sudden she had found this man who made her really happy, and then I had to take him to Minnesota and get him killed.

“Colin’s fine,” Rudy said. “Well, sort of.”

“What, Rudy? What?”

Rudy moved aside so that I could get a good view of my stepfather.

In handcuffs.

Colin was being questioned by the local sheriff. Blood covered his hands, was smeared on the front of his shirt and all over his shoes. He wore a very worried expression on his face, but the worry seemed to be wrestling with anger. I could see it seething from his very being.

“Colin killed Brian Bloomquist?”

“No,” Rudy said. “Of course he didn’t kill Brian Bloomquist.”

“Well, then why is he in handcuffs?”

“Because they think he killed him.”

“I am so confused, I’m amazed my head hasn’t exploded all over the place. Like those watermelons when that comedian Gallagher gets ahold of them.”

“You look like shit,” he said. “Sorry, but it’s the truth.”

I just smiled at him. No sympathy. No worry. Just you look like shit. Well, he didn’t look too hot himself. It made me worry about what he’d seen. “Okay, slow down and tell me everything,” I said.

He took a deep, cleansing breath, looked to the sky as if for guidance, and began talking. “Colin and I came back in from the lake about five-thirty. That’s a little later than Brian likes, but at the last minute I got a really good bite,” he said.

“Just tell me how my stepfather ended up in handcuffs!”

“I’m trying, Torie. Be patient. I went to the men’s room, which is around back. So if you have to take a whiz, you don’t have to come all the way in the building.

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