Her Last Lie by Tikiri Herath

Author:Tikiri Herath [Tikiri Herath]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-two

Adams rubbed his tired face.

“Felipe always bragged about what he made for his movies. Last month he told the world he just updated his will.”

“Who gets it all now?” said Tanya.

“Me.” Adams gave her a defeated look. “He posted a funny meme. Good thing my brother’s a sheriff….”

Tanya digested this news silently. Unless Felipe had been deep in debt, Adams had just become a rich man.

Did you do it?

She swallowed those words before they came out. There were better ways to find out if Adams had a hand in the murder. A direct question would only make him clamp up, regardless of whether he was guilty or not.

“I don’t care about the millions,” said the sheriff as if he knew what she was thinking. “I’d just like him back. He wasn’t perfect, and he wasn’t nice, but he was my only family left.”

Tanya wondered what Felipe’s death had to do with the headless corpse, the bomb that killed the girl, and Eva's disappearance.

A part of her wanted to find Fox, so they could get back on their hunt for his sister. But as she watched the sheriff’s face churn from horror to anger to sorrow and back, she knew she couldn’t just get up and leave.

Adams tapped absentmindedly on his desk. The rat-a-tat-tat of his fingers on the wood was like nails on a chalkboard to Tanya.

“They found a note in his cell.”

Tanya jerked her head up. “What did it say?”

“Last witness still alive.”

She stared at him, speechless, a sense of dread crawling through her spine.

How many more will die like this?

“Adams?”

The crisp female voice came from the doorway.

Tanya pivoted to see Acting Sheriff Kathy Hatchet at the threshold. She was standing at attention, posture perfect, chin up, and her face stern, like she was about to command a military parade.

Hatchet was ready for the sheriff’s job and knew it.

Her eyes were on Adams.

“We have a ten-fifty-six,” she barked.

Adams jumped to his feet.

“Location?”

“Three-five-one Hilltop Drive.”

“Oh, man,” whispered Adams hoarsely.

Hatchet hesitated like there was something else she wanted to say.

“I need all the warm bodies I can get. There are too many open cases.”

Tanya pushed her chair back and stood up. “In my precinct, code ten-fifty-six refers to a suicide victim.”

“Means the same in ours,” said Hatchet in a dry voice.

Tanya felt her blood go cold. “Is it that girl we found by the cliff?”

“Madden handed her over to Dr. Chen this morning,” said Hatchet. “She’s at the clinic under medical observation.”

Tanya frowned. “Who lives at three-five-one Hilltop Drive, then?”

Hatchet shot her an irritated glance and turned to Adams. “I’m on my way.” The new sheriff spun on her heels and marched off without a word.

Adams plucked his jacket off the hook on the wall and pulled it on.

“It’s the mayor’s residence.” He shook his head like he couldn't believe what was happening. “I was going to go over to talk to her just after the fundraiser, but—”

“I’d like to come with you,” said Tanya. “This could be related to Fox’s sister.

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