Bleed Out (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 23) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

Ten

I’d put out a BOLO on Angela Inglewood and her car, which her sister had told me was a cream Volkswagen GTI. After that we’d made our way to the precinct, at a more sedate pace. When we got there Maria, on the desk, told us that Sebastian Copes had arrived and had been shown to interrogation room three. He wasn’t happy and had called the coffee he’d been offered bat’s piss. I didn’t like his manners, but I couldn’t argue with his assessment of the coffee.

We didn’t stop for bat’s piss, but went straight to the interrogation room. He had an expression of elaborate incredulity on his face as he watched us come in and sit across from him at the table. Before either of us could say anything he started shaking his head.

“I am sorry, was I the only one who heard, ‘twenty minutes’? I mean, because I thought I said it very clearly, and I was here after twenty minutes and…”

Dehan sighed. “Shut up, Sebastian.” He stopped dead and his mouth sagged open. Dehan didn’t stop. “This is a murder inquiry, and we haven’t decided yet whether you are a suspect or not. If you’re busy, so are we.”

“What? Me? A murder suspect?”

“Quit bellyaching, let’s get this done and maybe you can go home.”

“Maybe?” He stared from me to Dehan and back again. “Do I need a lawyer?”

I shook my head. “No, not just yet, but the sooner you stop complaining the quicker we can get this over with.”

He pointed at Dehan like he was about to say something, but remained silent. I fought back a smile and asked him my first question.

“When Angela went to see you that day, twenty years ago, when she resigned and told you your relationship was finished, exactly what reason did she give you? What did she tell you?”

“Are you telling me Angela has been murdered?”

“No, this is a murder inquiry, Mr. Copes, but Angela has not been murdered.”

“Who then?”

Dehan cut in. “How about you stop asking questions and start answering ours, Sebastian? What did she tell you?”

He sagged back in his chair and rubbed his face with long, bony hands.

“Jesus Christ! I mean, it was twenty years ago!”

“You keep bullshitting and this is going to be a very long interview.”

He threw his hands in the air. “Let me see, if I can remember, verbatim everything that was said twenty years ago! She came in. She’d been off sick for a week or something. I was expecting, fully expecting, that when she came back she was going to tell me that she would be mine. That she would marry me and we could be together. I was so excited. Impatient. And when she came in, and came into my office, and I looked at her face, I knew I had got it badly wrong.

“She looked at me with those blue, blue eyes, and that look…” He waved a hand, like he was polishing glass. “It said everything I needed to know. She sat and started crying, like she wanted sympathy from me.

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