DS 08 Family Secrets by Emrick K.J

Author:Emrick, K.J. [Emrick, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
Published: 2014-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Darcy returned home to find that Jon had left already. No doubt he had a lot of things to take care of at the police station. His sister was still there, and the paperwork for her arrest still needed to be completed.

Hopefully Darcy could piece this together before Aimee got sent too far down the criminal justice system.

The silence in the house wasn't comforting like it usually was. It felt empty, now that she and Jon had argued last night. Now that she'd found out about all the secrets he'd been keeping. The ones about his family really didn't bother her, she supposed. It made no difference to her at all who his father was. It didn't mean Jon was now a different person just because Darcy suddenly knew about his dad being in prison. He was still the man she loved.

The secret that hurt her was the one about him looking into a job in another town. He just expected her to move with him if he went? How could he not have mentioned any of this to her?

Sighing, she sat down at her kitchen table and put the scrap of cloth she had found next to the folded financial documents from Vivica Chartrand's house. She smoothed the pages out, ready for her to pore through them. Speaking of secrets.

She had a feeling she knew exactly who this stained cloth belonged to. The question was, did it mean what she thought it meant. Setting it aside for the moment she turned to the paper statements. Vivica's ghost had been very insistent that they were important. Time to find out.

The first few pages were bank statements of Vivica's. Her bank account had drained slowly and steadily over the last few months, large withdrawals at a time, until there was almost nothing left. Less than two hundred dollars in the savings account, nothing in the checking. Interesting, but not unusual for someone of Vivica's advanced age who was living on a fixed income.

The next page was a separate bank statement that didn't seem to match up with the others. Darcy set it aside.

The bottom two pages were an unfinished application for a remortgage of Vivica's home. She'd never filed them. The pages were typed and not in anyone's handwriting. Vivica had never struck Darcy as the type of person to type out anything. Brianna the rabid reporter lady had found a letter in the trash bin of Vivica's room, and that had been handwritten, not typed. It didn't seem to Darcy that Vivica had filled out this paperwork. It hadn't been Vivica who wanted to get a loan from the bank.

More likely, whoever killed Vivica had been the one who filled these papers out trying to pressure her into getting another mortgage from the bank. Whoever she had been giving money to had wanted even more from her. But Vivica had already decided she couldn't give any more money to that person. That's what the letter in the trash had said.

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