IF SHE FEARED by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Sheriff Armstrong pulled up alongside the curb in her patrol car less than five minutes later. By that time, Kate and DeMarco had Regina Voss on her porch. Regina was standing with her back pressed against the side of the house so no passersby could see the cuffs. Kate was sitting in the little wicker chair Regina kept by the front door while DeMarco stood at the steps.

Armstrong looked like a woman who might be on the way to defuse a bomb rather than get caught up on the arrest.

“Ms. Voss, were you not hospitable to these ladies?” Armstrong asked.

At first, her approach irritated Kate. But then she thought that being the head of law enforcement of a town this small probably meant you got to know most of your town’s residents very well. And if Regina Voss was someone who had indeed seen the inside of the police department before (as she had hinted at), then Armstrong likely knew how to talk to her without getting her riled up again.

“No, I wasn’t,” Regina said. “This younger one came asking me about anything I’d seen that might be out of the ordinary. I figured she was here to look into the murders and I wasn’t sure if she was asking me as if I was a suspect or just an interested citizen.”

“So why are you in cuffs?” Armstrong asked.

Regina made a prissy face and shrugged. She looked out to the road as if she were completely uninterested in what was going on. Or perhaps, Kate thought, almost daring Mrs. Flair to come jogging by again.

DeMarco took the liberty of filling Armstrong in. The sheriff nodded along, wincing here and there. When DeMarco’s account of events was through, Armstrong waved the agents down into the yard. She looked back at Voss and asked: “You aren’t going to be any trouble if I leave you right there for a few minutes, are you?”

“No. You go on out there and talk about me.” She sneered when she said it, but there was also something in her expression that looked satisfied. Kate figured she was the type of crotchety middle-aged lady who liked it when people were talking about her—even if it was about negative things.

Armstrong led them to where she had parked her car and they gathered around the hood. “Regina Voss is a bitch,” she said. “She has a sad story to justify it—two failed marriages, the latest of which saw her forty-nine-year-old husband leave town with a twenty-two-year-old tourist. That was three years ago and ever since then, she’s been that local that all the kids make up stories about. Crazy old Ms. Voss, always yelling at anyone that dares to linger in front of her house for too long. Kids sometimes egg her house. She’s that sort of woman. But she also loathes tourists and anyone new who comes into town. And the Flair family, as you might have picked up, are rather new. And between the three of us, Emily Flair bears a striking resemblance to the young lady who stole the second husband away.

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