Blood Men: A Thriller by Paul Cleave
Author:Paul Cleave [Cleave, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 1439189617
Amazon: B005DI969U
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2010-07-20T05:00:00+00:00
chapter twenty-seven
The knocking wakes me. I unplugged the alarm clock last night since time doesn’t really matter much these days. I get to my feet and pull back the curtain and the Christmas Eve sun is high enough to suggest it’s sometime around noon. I knew the knocking would come today, I just didn’t know when. The clothes I wore last night are gone. As is the murder weapon—or accident weapon, to be accurate. I’ve cleaned my hand up, put a fresh bandage on it, it hurts but that’s the price you have to pay, I guess. First thing the monster made me do when I got home last night was drop a glass on the kitchen floor when I was trying to take painkillers.
I pull on some jeans and a shirt. My shoulder hurts and I rub at it. My body is stiff and sore. The knocking comes again.
I reach the door in bare feet. The house is closed up and the air is warm and stale. I open the front door and bright light floods in, the windscreen of the car parked out front reflecting a load of it into my eyes. I hold my hand up to shield them, squinting, exposing the bandage to the men standing outside.
“We have some developments,” Detective Schroder says.
“What kind of developments?” I ask, and I realize that I haven’t actually spoken out loud since leaving Sam last night at her grandparents.” My voice catches and my mouth is dry and the words are croaky, and I have to repeat the sentence.
“Mind if we come in? This is Detective Landry,” he says, and Detective Landry looks too small for his clothes and a little too tired to be working. I lead them inside and we sit in the living room. At least I do, and Landry does, but Schroder stays standing near the Christmas tree, which pisses me off. I don’t offer them a drink. It’s not a social call.
“You’ve found the men who murdered my wife?” I ask.
“We recovered some of the money at a homicide this morning,” Landry says. “Drug dealer went and got himself murdered.”
“So somebody bought drugs from him with the stolen cash?”
“That’s quick thinking,” Schroder says.
“I like that,” Landry adds. “A quick thinker.”
“But no. That’s not what we’re saying,” Schroder says. “The cash we found was from the bank. It was stained with dye and damaged.”
“I don’t follow,” I say.
Schroder explains to me what a dye pack is and it makes enough sense. The whole time I keep thinking there’s something he’s not telling me. Maybe they found something of mine at the scene. Could be a neighbor saw me—it doesn’t seem likely, it was too dark. And why isn’t he mentioning the rest of the money? The bricks of cash under the mattress weren’t ruined with dye.
“How much of the money did you find?” I ask.
“Can’t tell you that,” Schroder says.
“Was this the man that killed Jodie?”
“No,” Landry says.
“He was one of the six?” I ask.
“One of the seven,” Schroder says.
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