Eyes Never Lie by Tyler Porter

Author:Tyler Porter
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: Hello Detective

At first, I couldn’t stop wondering how he could be so fucking stupid. When I heard that some geezer in a wife-beater was the person they were looking for. Really? He was just going to let the case end and let everyone go on believe that this Jarmin guy was the most prolific serial killer of modern times. Then, surprise surprise, he came to his senses. I should hope so. I would think that three decades involved in police work would have counted for something. It turns out, they did.

He didn’t let the case die there. He even went to the top and convinced the police captain to keep the case open. I had him. Honestly, I’d began doubting myself. Everything that I’d done, all the work that I’d put in, every little detail that had been handled so carefully and all of it was almost wasted. For God’s sake, the bastard had actually retired. He had actually walked away from me. Of course, he found out what happens when I’m ignored, but it still left me with a slight doubt.

Now, though, I was certain that everything I’d done had been right. Everything had not been for nothing, and the stars were aligning. I’d gotten him to climb into the web, now he was stuck and he was going to stay stuck until the very fucking end, whether he liked it or not. It was beyond his control now. He was feeling the remorse and the guilt that I knew he would. It was the exact reason why I’d paid special attention to Shelby. It had to be brutal. It had to be enough to take him over the edge so my craft could be appreciated.

It was pretty clear that her death had done just that. It was clear to see from my spot outside his new little residence in boulder. As I stood there, just out of view, looking into the living room from the window, I saw a broken man. A man who’d the core years of his life building a reputation as if he were invincible and who now knew it all to be a lie. It was all bull shit, and he’d finally admitted it to himself.

I knew it all along and so many others did too, whether they said it out loud or not. But this was different. To see it written so inarguably on his face. To see that he had accepted it after all these years. After everything. The great Casey Norris, the man no bullet could stop, and no criminal could escape, now sat, so pathetically, in his living room with a bottle in one hand and a loaded gun in the other.

When he’d first sat down and loaded a round into the chamber, I’d almost bolted inside. I thought that was going to be it. His final bow to the world. I thought he was going to take himself out right then and there. There was not a snowball’s chance in hell that I was going to let that happen.

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