Revenge by Jackie Collins

Author:Jackie Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Star

chapter 14

THE FAMILY ENTERED FROM a private room in the back and filed into the first pew. They were led by the bereaved husband, Bobby Skorch, who was heavily sedated or maybe stoned—he could barely keep his balance. Bobby was clad in an ankle-length black leather coat and dark shades; his long, greasy, black hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail. He was smoking a cigarette.

Behind him came Salli’s father, a short stout man with a carrot-color crew cut and a nervous tic. And then followed two very young, fair-haired girls— pretty in an unsophisticated way. They were Salli’s half sisters. Their mother, an overweight woman wearing too much makeup and an unsuitable shiny blue satin cocktail dress, trailed closely behind them. And finally Grandpa, an old man with a wily gait, wearing a shabby, ill-fitting brown suit.

Tucci’s attention was on Bobby, the grieving husband, who’d been spotted last night picking up a girl on Sunset and taking her to a hotel. Some grieving husband, he thought. Hmm . . . he couldn’t wait to hear Lee’s report on the two strippers.

The more he thought about it, the more he was beginning to target Bobby Skorch as his prime suspect.

• • •

“That’s Angela Musconni with Salli’s ex,” Cole said, nudging Madison.

She took a peek at the exquisite young woman who was walking in from the side door accompanied by a wild-looking guy with a mass of dirty blond hair. Salli had obviously harbored a penchant for guys who resembled out-of-control rock-’n’-rollers.

“So that’s Eddie,” Madison said in a low voice. “Salli talked about him on the tape, said he used to beat her.”

“I told you that,” Cole said. “Hadda make the hospital run a coupla times myself. In fact, Eddie and I duked it out one day.”

“You did?”

“Yeah. I kinda got on him ’bout the way he was treatin’ Salli, an’ he called me a fag. So I beat the crap outta him.” Cole laughed at the memory. “The dude deserved it. Treats women like shit.”

“Do you think he could’ve murdered her?” Madison asked.

“Wouldn’t surprise me.”

She watched as Eddie and Angela sat down, noticing that as soon as they were settled, Angela began running her hands through the back of Eddie’s hair and cooing in his ear. Obviously they were a couple.

Then Madison’s attention was drawn to talk show host Bo Deacon, whom she’d met on the flight to L.A. It was only a few days ago, but it seemed like months had passed. Bo made a noisy entrance, demanding seats in front. He was with a zaftig redhead in her forties who clung to his arm as if she expected him to make a daring escape at any moment.

“Bo was coming on to Salli on the plane—or trying to,” she whispered to Cole. “Only Salli wasn’t buying his bullshit.”

“Another slimeball,” Cole said.

“You know everybody.”

“In my job—sure. I’m kinda like a shrink or a barman—my clients spill the goods.”

“You trained Bo?”

“For about three months. He’s a lazy son-of-a-bitch. Didn’t wanna work it, then blamed me ’cause he continued to put on the pounds.

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