A Killer Cover Up by Danielle Collins

Author:Danielle Collins [Collins, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

8

It only took a few calls and thirty minutes of waiting until a team of Adam’s colleagues were there and ready to take over the house. Margot felt bad for Vera, knowing how difficult it was to have your home invaded for the sake of truth, but she seemed to be taking it well. Perhaps it was due to her career overseas and living with an understanding that life never went as planned.

Margot waited around, watching as officers came in and took out boxes of things. Adam assured Vera that Paul’s things would be returned, but she merely shrugged as if the fight had gone out of her.

Finally, as the officers carried out the last of the items, Vera came up to Margot. “I almost forgot.” She pulled Margot down the hall and stopped at two doors. She pulled one open, revealing towels and extra blankets.

“I don’t know why, but I just remembered Paul looking in here the day before I left. He’d been gone all day and I was mad at him because I was leaving that night.” Vera stuck her hand in the closet and began rummaging around as Adam joined them in the hallway.

“You think he put something here?”

“All I know is that I do all of the laundry and cleaning, and he would do the cooking. It worked for us,” she said, shrugging. But—” She put her arm further into the closet. “—I remembered seeing him in here. He didn’t come out with anything, so it wasn’t that he needed a towel or a blanket. Ah!”

She pulled back and in her hand was a mailer identical to the one that Julian’s journal had been sent in.

“Thought so,” Vera said, handing it over to Adam.

“Thank you, Vera.” He took it and opened the unsealed flap. Margot peered over and they both saw an older-looking VHS tape. “Interesting,” Adam muttered under his breath.

“He’d been acting strange,” Vera said, wrapping her arms around herself as if cold. “I’d tried to get him to tell me what he was working on, but he wouldn’t budge. He did that sometimes, clammed up when it was something really important. I used to think it was because he didn’t trust me, but I grew to learn that he was just really private. It was all up here.” She gestured to her head. “He was brilliant, but he definitely stuck his nose where it didn’t belong.” She tried to laugh, but Margot could tell the humor was superficial.

“We’ll look into this and keep you posted, I promise,” Adam said, offering her a kind smile.

“Thank you,” she said, her voice scratchy with emotion.

They left, making sure that Vera had everything she needed from them and could get a hold of Adam should she find anything else that they’d missed. On the drive back to North Bank, Adam was silent, leaving Margot to her own thoughts.

Vera had lost the man she loved to this mystery, but did it have something to do with Julian? Or was that a mere coincidence? Margot was beginning to think it wasn’t.

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