Dark Harbor by David K. Wilson

Author:David K. Wilson [Wilson, David K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-11T22:00:00+00:00

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Carla and Sam had decided it was time to involve Vanessa in their investigation. Maybe she had answers that would clear things up. Armed with Carla’s phone and laptop, the couple went back to the office where Vanessa and Jude were working.

Carla told her sister how she and Sam had been using Jane’s phone bill to trace her steps from two nights ago and they had come across a familiar number. Sam opened the laptop and showed it to Vanessa. She stared at it in shock, finally shaking her head.

“That can’t be right,” Vanessa said.

“Sure looks like Norm’s number to me,” Sam said.

“But why would he call Jane?” Vanessa asked. “Why wouldn’t he call me?”

“Were Norm and Jane friends?” Carla asked gently.

Vanessa stood up in a huff and started pacing nervously.

“I just don’t understand,” she said.

“We’ve heard some of the rumors,” Sam said, ignoring the steely stare Carla threw at him.

“This island loves a good scandal,” Vanessa said. “If they can’t find one, they’ll make one up.”

“So you don’t think they’re true then?” Sam asked. “The rumors about Norm and Jane?”

“I know they aren’t true,” Vanessa snapped. “Norm swore to me there was nothing going on between them.”

“They were at least talking,” Sam said, pointing to the laptop screen.

Vanessa glared at Sam, shocked that he could even ask such a question.

“Whose side are you on?” she yelled before storming out of the room.

Carla got up to follow her sister, but not before hissing at Sam.

“Could you try to be a little sensitive? Just pretend,” she said.

Sam was surprised they both had turned on him so quick. He looked up at Jude, who was also glaring at him. He started to say something in his defense, but Jude shook his head.

“Tread lightly, son,” he said.

Sam heard a door slam and then Carla knocking on it, asking Vanessa to open it.

Maybe he had been a little rough. But he was asking the questions that any detective would have asked. He knew that most wives, when confronted with evidence that their husband was having an affair, were already suspicious. And he could tell that Vanessa was a little too defensive about the whole thing. Either she was in a severe state of denial or she was hiding something. Either way, Sam had a feeling that something just didn’t seem right.

Carla came back in the room, her face red with anger.

“Well, she’s locked herself in her room,” she said. “Good job, Sam.”

“I never accused Norm of anything,” Sam said.

“You might as well have,” Carla said. “It’s bad enough her husband is missing and wanted for murder. Now you’re going to throw an affair on top of it?”

“Why else would he be calling another woman in the middle of the night?” he asked. “To get a cake recipe?”

Unable to come up with a suitable answer, Carla sat down beside Sam with a groan.

“Vanessa is fragile,” Jude said. “You best tread lightly.”

“How much do you know about her marriage?” Sam asked. “Other than the occasional fight?”

Jude clenched his jaw and walked past Sam, stopping to stare him directly in the eyes.

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