Bayside Deceptions by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

The realization that she was Roger Lafferty’s alibi had obviously never occurred to Liza. It seemed to have put her into a state of shock.

“Surely, you realized if he was your alibi, then you were his?” Molly said.

“I never thought of him as mine. I would have gone to jail before I’d ever tell a soul that I was lured to a bedroom by that man.”

“Don’t you think you’re being a little melodramatic? ‘That man’ is a wealthy, prominent businessman, not some creep off the streets. Besides, it wasn’t as if you actually slept with him. When you realized his intentions, you put him down…literally.”

“Maybe so, but he apparently thought I would be amenable to his advances. What does that say about the lengths to which people think I’ll go in the name of environmental activism?”

Molly shook her head. “I doubt Roger was planning to buy his way into your bed. I suspect he simply had the hots for you. He certainly wouldn’t be the first man to find your combination of brains and beauty to be seductive.”

“Maybe,” Liza said doubtfully.

“Liza, just because you are oblivious of the way men look at you, I am not. In fact, it is sometimes very difficult being your friend. We walk into a room and all male eyes focus on you. I’m just part of the scenery.”

“Obviously, the hunk doesn’t see it that way.”

Molly allowed herself a tiny smirk of satisfaction. “No, he doesn’t. He seems to be immune, for which I am incredibly grateful. But that’s beside the point. You have to talk to him when he gets here and tell him what happened with Roger.”

“I can’t.”

“Oh, for heaven’s sake, do you want me to tell him? Or maybe you’d rather talk to that Miami detective, the one who probably lifts cars in his spare time to stay in shape. He certainly looks as if he’d take the news that you were withholding evidence well.”

Liza shuddered at the thought of sharing her most embarrassing moment with Detective Abrams, just as Molly had known she would.

“Okay, you win,” she conceded with obvious reluctance. “I’ll tell Michael.”

His arrival, as if on cue, prevented her from changing her mind.

“Tell him,” Molly prodded, the minute Michael had a beer in his hand and a comfortable spot on the sofa. Liza looked as if she preferred to wait until he’d finished the beer, maybe several beers.

“Tell me what?” he said, regarding them both suspiciously. “Don’t tell me one of you is confessing to the crime.”

Molly glared at him. “No.”

Liza squirmed awkwardly, her expression miserable. “Look, this isn’t really easy for me, but I do have a confession to make. Not about the murder exactly, but about Roger Lafferty. He couldn’t have done it.”

“Oh?”

His bland response got Molly’s attention. She regarded him curiously.

“I was with him,” Liza blurted. “I’d rather not go into the circumstances, but there is no doubt in my mind that he couldn’t possibly have killed Tessa.”

Molly waited again for Michael’s exclamation of surprise, maybe even a curse at the loss of the number one suspect.

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