Partners in Crime Box Set by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective and mystery, gay romance, gay mystery
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

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It took me twenty minutes to explain why I had purchased a plane ticket to France. Then I headed for the Berkowitzes’.

It was almost dark by the time I walked through the broken gate. The lights were on in the cottage. The smell of frying fish drifted through the open window.

Jen opened the door to my knock and recoiled. “You shouldn’t have come, Kyle. Vince will freak.”

“Yeah, well, I’m a little freaked myself. Where is he, Jen?”

“He’s not here,” she answered with an uneasy look over her shoulder.

“Then I’ll wait.”

“You can’t!” She sounded genuinely alarmed. “Vince thinks we’re having an affair, Kyle.”

I felt my jaw drop.

“Why does he think that, Jen?”

“Because I told him we were.”

If she had sounded defiant I probably would have strangled her, but she said it in a small voice, her eyes shiny with tears. With her hair in braids she looked about ten. She looked like she belonged in a little house on the prairie, not in an artists’ colony surrounded by thieves and murderers.

“Why for God’s sake?”

She gestured for me to hold my voice down, and then hissed, “Because I wanted to hurt him!”

“Did you want to hurt me?”

“No, of course not. I wanted Vince to feel what I felt when I found out about him and Brett.”

“Great, Jen, now you’ve got Vince gunning for me. He told the sheriff I stole the Virgin.” I swatted away a couple of moths circling the porch light.

“That’s not my fault!”

“Whose fault is it?”

“I don’t know. Yours.”

“Mine!”

Jen made frantic shushing motions. “Vince honestly believes you stole that painting, Kyle. He’s not just saying that. He thinks that you think you’ve got a right to it. He’s positive you took it. Brett told him you did.”

I opened my mouth but no words would come.

Something else did however. Vince charged out of the back room like Sir Lancelot out to rescue Lady Faire.

“I thought I recognized your voice!”

“I want to talk to you, Vince.”

“Get the hell out of my house!”

“Now, Vince!” Jenny protested.

Vince grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her away from me: seducer of women, slayer of men. “You can talk to my lawyer,” he told me.

“I didn’t take the damned painting.”

“MY damn painting, you goddamn liar. Mine, do you hear? My wife, my painting.”

“I didn’t take the painting and I don’t want your wife.”

“Bullshit! Now get out or I’ll throw you out.”

I got out. I wasn’t getting anywhere talking, and wrestling with Vince was going to be useless as well as humiliating.

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