It's Your Turn Now: a gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist by Theo Baxter

Author:Theo Baxter [Baxter, Theo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Published: 2023-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

22

THE FUNERAL HOME

The next day brought additional worries for me. Thanks to Michael abusing his position, like I knew he would, the police finally released Bruce’s body to the funeral home.

After a very extensive autopsy, since it was suspected he was murdered, they agreed, following a lot of pressure from the mayor’s office, that there was no point in holding onto him anymore since there was nothing new to be learned. Someone had poisoned him in the diner with oleander and that was that, which meant the funeral was finally happening that Sunday.

All that made me beyond nervous because I knew I was the lead suspect. Detective Petersen had told me as much. Although he had no evidence to support his gut feeling, he still firmly believed something fishy was going on, and that I was involved.

It didn’t help that Michael pulled a lot of strings and threatened people to be able to hold the funeral as soon as possible. I was sure that to the detective it looked like he was helping me to cover up a murder. Although there was a possibility I was exaggerating.

And knowing that Marco was following me around like some rabid animal, breathing down my neck, wasn’t helping me remain calm and composed. I understood he wanted me to fulfill my end of the bargain, but while I was under such scrutiny from the police, that wasn’t happening. I couldn’t risk being caught doing something I shouldn’t simply because he was impatient. Not that I could say something like that to him. He would lose his mind.

Thanks to all of that I was under a lot of pressure, and keeping it together was starting to get extremely difficult.

How did this turn out to be my life? Constantly thinking about killing someone, I wondered, and not for the first time. Oh, right, I made a pact with a stranger. With someone who turned out to be even more unstable than I was. And now I was stuck in an impossible situation.

Sadly, my problems didn’t stop there. Life thought I needed something more to deal with, on top of everything else. Like dealing with Bruce’s remains.

I honestly thought that when I hired someone else to do it for me, that meant I wouldn’t have to deal with all the details. I was wrong. It felt like it might be easier and cheaper to plan a wedding as opposed to someone’s funeral. On top of that, it was additionally painful for me to go through it all, not because I was saddened by the loss like everyone believed, but because I hated the man with all my being and really couldn’t care less how he was buried as long as he was.

Yet my sentiments didn’t matter; public appearance did. Especially at the time, since I was still on the police’s radar.

I constantly had to remind myself that it was all worth it because Bruce was dead, but it was getting more and more difficult to convince myself of that.

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