Friends Don't Lie by Cath Weeks

Author:Cath Weeks [Weeks, Cath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780349418728
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2019-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

23

It was so cold in the room that Melissa was sure that the sergeant’s lips had acquired a shade of purple they didn’t normally have. He was a nice-looking man; not handsome, just kindly with his soft brown eyes. It was a wonder that he still looked like that in his line of work. He could easily have slipped on a clerical collar and would have looked at home standing in a pulpit.

His subordinate, Wilson, looked similarly unscathed, with a heavily-freckled face that spoke of youth and sunshine. Yet his mouth was mean-looking and when he smiled, she noticed that his teeth were tiny, square.

‘This is one of the most frustrating cases I’ve ever worked on, Melissa,’ Sergeant Lloyd was saying. ‘Everything about it says accident. But it doesn’t feel like that. No one can account for the unplugging of the kayak. No one can explain to any real satisfaction why the trip went ahead in the eye of a storm. And no one seems to know why Jennifer suggested a change of plan resulting in her own death.’

He took a pen from his pocket, tapped it on the table top. ‘And now to add to our problems, we’re not sure about the one person whose word seemed reliable.’ He set his eyes on her. ‘Hence our confusion.’

She glanced about her at the beige carpet, the beige walls, wishing that Lee could have come in with her. The police had asked him to wait in the lobby, telling him to get a coffee and that she wouldn’t be long. Going through the heavy metal doors to the interview room, she hadn’t looked back at him for fear that she would panic and make a dash for it.

She didn’t know much about the law, but was fairly certain that making a dash for it always looked like guilt.

It was not only cold in this interview room, but the air felt rationed. She was sitting on a plastic chair that bounced as she shifted position. ‘I’m sorry,’ she said, ‘but I don’t understand why you’re doubting me.’

‘Then let me explain … ’ the sergeant said. ‘We checked everything out at King’s, the solicitors. The paperwork was all in order, like you said it would be. But then the contents of the will were made known to us.’

She nodded. ‘And?’

‘You don’t know what I’m about to say?’

‘No,’ she said, looking at him and then at Wilson. ‘Really. I haven’t a clue.’

Wilson, who had seemed disinterested moments before, became animated then. ‘Jennifer Davies changed her will at the time of the business deal between you,’ he said. ‘In the event of her death, the six hundred thousand pounds investment was to remain with you, to be absorbed by the business.’

There was a silence. Melissa gazed at Wilson, looking at the multitude of freckles on his face, even on his ears.

‘I don’t understand,’ she said. She looked about the bare room. ‘Could I have a drink of water?’

‘No,’ Wilson said.

The sergeant glanced at him.

Wilson pushed back his chair, left the room without another word.

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