Nauti Deceptions by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-07-16T10:00:20+00:00

It’s not a huge amount, but there’ll still be cash left over from the burials.”

“When did you find this out?”

“Yesterday evening Aubry came in after you left the office. He was telling me about the policies on the brothers then, and mentioned the one on the grandmother. Joe and Jaime took out their policies. They had survivorship on theirs. In the event of both their deaths though, Lisa was beneficiary. She’s also the beneficiary on the policy her grandmother took out ’bout twenty years ago, after her husband’s death.”

Zeke rubbed at the back of his neck. “I’ll talk to Lisa and see if she’ll turn over the policies.”

Would Lisa have killed her brothers and grandmother for the insurance? Zeke had seen it happen before.

“I’ll head out then,” Gene told him. “See you later, Zeke.”

Zeke rubbed at his jaw as he turned back to the bedroom and focused his gaze on the oxygen tank, its lines hanging forlornly to the pillows of the bed.

Lisa didn’t kill her brothers. She didn’t kill her grandmother. Zeke could feel it, despite the evidence of the insurance policies and the attempts to make it look as though each death had an explanation. Someone had killed with such perfect precision that not even a trace of an intruder had been left behind.

As he stared around the room the cell phone at his belt beeped demandingly.

“Sheriff Mayes,” he answered.

“Sheriff?” Lisa Walker’s voice came through the line, timid, husky with tears. “I wanted to ask. Grandma mentioned calling you last night; she said she might have known who the girl was that Joe and Jaime were seeing. I wondered if you would tell me who it was?”

Click. He felt it now. Like a piece of the puzzle falling into place.

“She didn’t call me, Lisa,” he said calmly. “She didn’t tell you who the girl was?”

Lisa sighed. “She said she wanted to talk to you first, to be sure about something before she said anything more. You know how Grandma was about gossip.”

She had hated gossip. She didn’t gossip, and she didn’t hesitate to berate anyone who came to her with idle talk. This time, Zeke wished she had gone back on those principles.

“She didn’t mention anything?” he asked.

“She said Joe had come to see her a few days before he was killed. He was laughing, said he and Jaime had a date Saturday night. Grandma was giving him hell over it and Joe told her that sharing what they loved was better than fighting over it and neither of them having it. It was the first time he’d ever mentioned love in regard to a woman, she said. When she asked who it was, she said he wouldn’t give her name, but he said something that made her suspect who it might be. She wouldn’t tell me what he said.”

She hadn’t tried to call him, Zeke knew, but she might have called the office.

“I’m sorry, Sheriff.” She sighed. “I should have pushed her.”

“Don’t worry about it, Lisa,” he said.

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