Monsters (A Detective Pierce Novel Book 1) by Kane Remington

Author:Kane, Remington [Kane, Remington]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: detective, mystery, Noir, suspense, thriller
Published: 2013-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

They were in Manny’s car, which was still parked at the diner.

Dave listened without speaking as Manny told him his plan. He wanted Dave to kill his wife so that he would gain sole custody of the kids and get to keep his house. While Dave was killing her, Manny would make sure that he had an airtight alibi. And yes, he knew that the cops would suspect that he hired someone to murder her, but there would be absolutely no way to prove it because no money was changing hands.

Dave stared at him.

“You hate your wife that much?”

“She’s trying to take my kids away, Dave, so yes, I hate her that much.”

“Hypothetically, and I do mean hypothetically, how would I go about doing this? I mean, I would have to know when, so that you can plan your alibi.”

“I have all the details worked out. I’ve thought of everything. The cops won’t even look your way because you don’t know her.”

Dave laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

“You, that’s what’s so funny, you must think I’m an idiot. A second after I kill your wife, you’ll be handing that video you made over to the cops.”

“Why would I do that?”

“Because you’ll claim that I killed your wife as a threat to you, to try and make you hand over the video to me. Then you’ll be a hero for turning me in and get to keep your kids, while I spend years wasting away on death row.”

“You don’t trust me?”

“Hell no, Manny, you just want to use me to do your dirty work, after that, I’m expendable.”

Manny sighed.

“Buddy, you have no faith. Remember when I said that I thought of everything? Well, I did, reach down between the seats, in the cup holder.”

Dave sent Manny an odd look, but then did as he said. His hand came up holding a silver-colored object. When Dave gave it a good look, he saw that it was a micro tape recorder, and that it was running.

“You’re taping this!”

“Exactly, now turn it off.”

Dave turned off the tape, but then backed it up and listened. Manny could clearly be heard asking him to kill his wife.

Dave shut it off.

“What’s going on?”

“Don’t you get it, buddy? That’s yours. That’s your insurance against me sending the cops the video of you killing Dunham. If I give the cops the video, then you’ll just give them that tape and they’ll know that I ordered my wife’s death. It’s like what they said during the Cold War, it’s mutually assured destruction. If I rat on you, you can rat on me and we’ll both be fucked, but why would we ever do that. Get it?”

Dave gripped the recorder tightly in his hand.

“Yeah, just one thing though, I’m not killing your wife. Why should I? Now that I have this, I don’t need to fear that video, do I?”

“I’d thought you might say that, and here’s why you’re going to kill her anyway, it’s because if you don’t, I will go to the cops.

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