Harlequin Intrigue September 2020--Box Set 2 of 2 by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Jolene’s fingers curled around the door, and she caught her breath. She felt like grabbing Tucker and shaking him, but she didn’t want to scare him off. The guy seemed ready to blow away with the next breeze.

“You saw what happened to Pinky?”

“I heard.” Tucker tapped his head. “I was dreaming in my pad.”

“Dreaming?” Sam turned his head and rolled his eyes at her. “You mean you were sleeping?”

“I was sleeping and dreaming.” Tucker started combing his fingers through his unkempt beard, not a gray hair visible, but he looked old enough to be Sam’s father. “Big loud noise woke me up.”

“Did you hear voices?” Sam allowed the ten-dollar bill to peek through his fist, and Tucker’s gaze followed every one of Sam’s gestures. “Yelling? Screaming?”

“Just a yelp, like a yelp, yip, yap. Big loud noise. Scraping sound like furniture moving.” Tucker narrowed his eyes. “Then he left.”

Jolene’s heart jumped. “You saw the man who killed Mel…Pinky?”

“I heard footsteps—clomp, bomp, stomp. I eyed, spied though the blinds and saw a man leaving. Stocking cap on his head. It’s hot. Nobody needs no stocking cap.”

“This rhyming is giving me a headache.” Sam rubbed his temple with two fingers. “Did you see what this guy looked like, Tucker? Other than the stocking cap? Beard? Long hair? Clothing?”

Tucker tore at his shirt. “It wasn’t me. No beard. It wasn’t me. Don’t take my thumb, don’t take my thumb, don’t take my thumb, drum, crumb drive.”

“Damn.” Sam dragged a hand through his hair. “I didn’t say it was you, Tucker, and we’re not going to take your thumb. I’m asking what the guy looked like.”

“Dark clothes, black clothes. Dark, stark, weird beard.” He waved his hands. “Not me, not me. Not my thumb.”

“We know that, Tucker.” She tugged on Sam’s sleeve. “Give him the money for God’s sake.”

Sam held on to the bill and asked, “Did you see him get into a car? Hear a car?”

“No car. Like me, no truck. But not me.” Tucker started hopping from foot to foot. “It wasn’t me. Not my thumb.”

Sam smacked a hand against his forehead. “I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”

Jolene hunched over the car door. “Tucker, can you talk to the police? Tell them what you told us? You want to help Pinky, don’t you? She was good to you, and that man hurt her.”

“They’ll get me for staying in that place when I ain’t supposed to. They’ll take my thumb drive. Pinky gave me that.”

“You’re not there now. The cops aren’t going to arrest you for anything. They’re trying to find out what happened to Pinky.” Sam held out the balled up ten to Tucker. “I’ll make sure they don’t arrest you. Just tell them what you saw.”

Tucker snatched the bill and opened his voluminous coat, wet from the rains, to find a place to put the money. As he tugged open one side of his coat, a purse fell to the ground.

Jolene covered her mouth. “Sam, that’s Melody’s purse.

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