Helena Goes to Hollywood: A Helena Morris Mystery by CC Dragon

Author:CC Dragon [Dragon, CC]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Cheryl Dragon
Published: 2015-03-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

I walked in just as my sister stormed upstairs.

“What’s all that about? Danny’s parents want something? She needs to work with them.” I knew my sister could be stubborn but he was their son.

Mom sat there quiet and poised. “It’s not that.”

I got that look that you get when Mom is not happy. “What’s wrong?”

“What did you tell your sister?” she asked.

Oh, that. Of course Sonia would try to use it as leverage to get my mom to tell all. Dumb girl. Mom was Fort Knox and Area 51 put together. “I needed her to tell me the truth about Danny and her alibi.”

“Alibi? She couldn’t hurt Danny.”

“I know, Mom. But the police are right that she is a prime suspect. He cheated on her, he has a new woman, and he might get money in the divorce. Plenty of reasons to want him dead so she’s still not out of the woods. One theory is the killer was hired.”

She put her hands up to her ears. “I don’t want to hear the gory details. This isn’t about Danny. It’s about you and your sister. How could you tell her that?”

“Sonia isn’t a kid anymore. She’s been harping on the dad thing for years. I needed to tell her the truth so she’d trust me with this situation. She’s a suspect. She either didn’t have an alibi or was embarrassed by it. She doesn’t have a good one.”

“And that was the only way you think to get her to talk? You couldn’t find a better way to get her to tell you the truth?”

That was a low blow. But I was older; I was supposed to protect my sister and have all the answers. Right?

“Mom, Sonia is thirty. She’s not a baby anymore. She’s a huge star and she’s got a dead husband and maybe someone after her. There wasn’t time to coddle the truth out of her.”

“I don’t want her knowing.” Mom’s eyes welled up.

The guilt bomb went nuclear. “I didn’t tell her anything about you and Dad, just me. Only what I experienced personally and I’m sorry, but it’s the truth.”

“And that’s not bad enough? She can put that together for what it means to me. She asked me what he did, if he cheated on me.”

“That’s Danny paranoia—he cheated so she wondered if Dad did. She came up with that on her own.” Technically that line of Sonia’s inquiry wasn’t my fault.

“You told her no?”

“Of course I did—she thought you’d be disappointed in her if she took Danny back after he cheated. It seemed like they wanted to get back together but they couldn’t forgive each other. She wouldn’t admit it exactly but she didn’t want to let you down.”

I hated secrets, maybe because I’d been forced to keep them all my life. Maybe because they caused more pain than the truth. I always seemed to be in the middle and no one was happy when information was kept from them.

“Why would Sonia think that? I’d never be disappointed in her.

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