Esme and the Money Grab: (A Very Dark Romantic Comedy) by Paloma Meir

Author:Paloma Meir [Meir, Paloma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B015QOOBYK
Publisher: The Pocket Company
Published: 2015-10-02T23:00:00+00:00

“Esme,” Landon came to me as I entered the garage, “You don’t want to see this. I don’t know what’s going on but—

“It’s Mr. Galloway. I did it—

“What do you mean you did it? The man is wrapped in some sort of particle rock—

“It’s kitty litter. Let me explain…”

The numbness I felt when my parents had died fell over me as I told Landon part two of the story of my life, the part I had altered, okay, straight up lied about in Hawaii. His expression was blank as I told him the story but his were piercingly cold as it went on.

“Why do you think you killed him? He was old. Was he not strong enough to bend down and pick up the pills?”

“He was mobile, he didn’t have those kind of problems… Didn’t you hear me? I wished him dead and then he was dead.” I looked over his shoulder to see Mr. Galloway’s partially unwrapped body. He looked as fresh as the day I had wrapped him up.

“Are you magic, Esme? Wishing someone dead doesn’t kill them.”

“I don’t know,” I yanked at my hair in hopes of waking myself up from this nightmare. “I’m a glorified Latina housekeeper. What do you think the police would have thought?”

“I think they would have thought very old man died after arguing with his much put upon caretaker.”

“You don’t know how the world works Landon. People, your kind of people, see me and think poor, desperate, lazy, criminal.”

“My kind of people?” He asked with a trace of sarcasm.

“Not your kind of people. I didn’t mean that. It’s just the way this city, maybe the world works.”

“I would love to have spent my life with you, showing you how wrong your thinking is… but now…”

“But now, what?”

“It’s not important anymore.” He rubbed the top of his head, “In the living room, that’s Jack? The one who wasn’t taking the breakup well?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, well, that was an understatement. The way it looks now, is damaging. I’m going to call 911. When they get here, you’re not going to say a word, but you will listen to what I’m saying and when they eventually interview you, you will parrot back what I said to them. Do you understand?”

“Yes.”

“I’m risking my law degree, and possibly my freedom on you. Are you sure you can do this?"

“Yes, but you don’t need—

“Esme, you weren’t the cause of this, but what happened after? It doesn’t look good. I’m going to say some things about your maniac old boyfriend, who tried to kill you. It might get rough. Can you handle it?”

I was going to say, no, you can’t do that, but I suddenly felt the spirit of Jack propelling me to say, yes. I swear I heard laughter from Mr. Galloway too. I blocked out the voices of my parents. My head was too busy with people no longer alive.

“Yes,” I went back to Jack, sat down next to him and held his hand in mine. Within a few minutes paramedics and police swarmed around us.

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