A Berry Perplexing Puzzle: A Kylie Berry Cozy Mystery (Kylie Berry Mysteries Book 8) by A.R. Winters

Author:A.R. Winters [Winters, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“What a lovely home,” I said as Zoey and I followed Rubin through the house and into the living room. Zoey and I sat on the long teal sofa and Rubin sat in an off-gold armchair.

Rubin was a slender, tall man with long legs, fit and trim with gray at his temples. He crossed his ankle over his knee and leaned comfortably back in his chair. If the man was fifty, he was a handsome fifty, full of vitality.

I couldn’t help but compare him to his wife’s lover, Gary. Gary had been heftier, tall and fit but with a football player’s build. Gary had been handsome, but Rubin was no slouch.

I’d like to say I didn’t understand how his wife’s loyalties could be divided between the two men, but that would be a lie. I knew what it meant to have deep feelings for more than one person at a time.

Or possibly Rubin and Lara’s relationship had turned into a partnership while her partnership with Gary had turned into a love affair. But husbands had a nasty habit of killing their wives and sometimes their wife’s lover. Maybe Rubin had opted to get rid of the lover while keeping his wife in order to maintain the life they’d built together. It did look like a very nice life.

Whatever the case, statistically speaking, there was a really good chance Zoey and I were sitting in the presence of a killer—even if no one who knew him thought so.

We all sat and stared at each other in uncomfortable silence until Rubin asked, “What’s this really about?”

“It’s about trying to figure out who killed Gary Michaels.”

“As far as I know, Gary killed Gary Michaels,” Rubin said.

Zoey nodded like she understood his cryptic answer, but I was feeling slow today. I needed someone to explain it to me.

“How do you mean?” I asked.

Rubin’s arms were on the arms of the chair, and his fingers drummed on the arm rest’s end. “You reap what you sow,” he finally said. “I… I did know about Lara’s affair with him. You’re right. I could have let what they had with each other blow up with I have with Lara, or I could compartmentalize it. I chose the latter.”

“Okay…” I was still at a loss about his earlier rhetoric. “What’s that got to do with reaping and sowing?”

“A man like Gary, he took what he wanted and the world let him.”

“That sort of describes a lot of men… many behind bars.”

“Yeah, but you see, where Gary was different was in his ability to convince the world that it wanted him to have whatever it was that he wanted.”

“Are you saying you wanted your wife to sleep around on you?” Zoey asked.

Rubin bristled. His whole body tensed and the muscles of his jaw bunched. “My wife does not sleep around on me.”

“I’m not meaning to be insensitive here, but…” I shrugged my shoulders to let him fill in the rest. I mean, come on. Tomayto, tomawto. They were both the same on a salad.

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