Covenant by Ann McMan

Author:Ann McMan [McMan, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781612941929
Publisher: Bywater Books
Published: 2021-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Recorded Interview

Preliminary Inquest Investigation

Death of Mayor Gerald Watson

“My name is Natalie Diane Chriscoe. I work at Cougar’s Quality Logistics. Rita is my sister-in-law. She works at Cougar’s too. And she lives in our garage apartment.”

Dear god, I hope he don’t ask me any questions about Rita and Eva. That would make her look like Public Enemy Number One.

“Yes sir. Rita and me were having lunch at Freemantle’s Market the day Watson come in there and went after the Sheriff.”

He pretty much went after everybody else in that place, too. I wish Rita hadn’t provoked him the way she did. It sure ain’t helping her case right now. She never did have the sense to hold her peace.

“The mayor was hoppin’ mad because he said somebody tipped off them Mexicans who work up at the tree farm up on Whitetop. He blamed Sheriff Martin for it, and come in there with guns blazin’ to accuse him. I guess his band of ICE raiders had just gone up there to round up illegals and didn’t manage to find any. That’s when he went off on the Sheriff and started accusing him and his deputy of all kinds of things.”

I’m not gonna tell them what the mayor said about the sheriff and Dr. Heller. It don’t bear repeating that Sheriff Martin looked like he wanted to knock Watson’s block off.

“Yes sir. He kicked up quite a ruckus. He knocked over some snack displays and pretty much started calling out everybody who was eatin’ lunch in there that day—even the librarian and her brother.”

I wonder if they already know about the words Watson and Rita had? I don’t wanna lie, but I’ll be damned if I’ll say anything that points a finger at her. I don’t even know the truth about what all happened between her and Watson’s wife, Eva, all those years ago.

“Well, I didn’t really see it. But they all said Watson tripped over Rita’s foot on the way to the door. Curtis Freemantle had told him to clear out. To tell the truth, Watson didn’t seem to me to be any madder at Rita than he was at anybody else in there. That man pretty much hated everyone, and most people felt the same way about him.”

How much longer is this gonna take?

“Yes, sir. He threw a bag of them Cheetos at her and stormed outta there. It was a sight to see, really. Everybody in that place pretty much stood up to him, too. Nobody was gonna take his guff. Me’n Rita finished our lunch and went back to Cougar’s. We didn’t talk no more about it, neither.”

They’re asking me too many questions about Rita . . .

“Yes sir. We were both at the river on the 4th. We were standin’ near the food tables with James Lawrence, in line to get dessert. That’s when Watson showed up and went after that Jenkins boy. He spewed all kind of mess at him, too. Then he pushed him into one of the tables and drug his daughter off.

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