Sleep of Reason by Rose Beecham

Author:Rose Beecham [Beecham, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Gay & Lesbian, Lesbian Mystery
ISBN: 9781602821040E
Amazon: B0042FZPM2
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2006-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Tonya stared at Wade across the kitchen table and said, “It’s late. I think you should go.”

“Go? Go where? The cops have torn my place apart.”

“I don’t know why you came here.” Over and over, Tonya saw Corban’s sweatshirt with the bloodstains around the neck. He was dead. The sheriff had said the case was now a homicide investigation and Wade was the main suspect.

Tonya had to sit there listening to that mean bitch detective telling her how Wade murdered Corban, and almost everything he’d said to her and the police was a lie. They’d found Corban’s clothes where Wade’s truck was seen by the state patrol. He even admitted he’d gone to Cahone when they said. According to the detective, that meant he was out getting rid of Corban’s body when he’d told Tonya he was at home.

They said he’d tried to make it look like the goat’s head boys took Corban. They’d thrown that goat’s head into her living room, but Wade had moved it to the front yard and taken the rug out of her bedroom to hide the bloodstain. The detective, who Wade said must be a lesbo because look at her muscles, went on about a police dog that could smell where dead bodies had been and how dogs like that didn’t make mistakes. She showed Tonya a video of the dog making its special signal in the backseat of Wade’s pickup.

What Tonya couldn’t stop thinking about was that Wade had brought her home to an empty house, but told her Corban was asleep in bed. And she hadn’t looked. She would never know for sure what was true because she hadn’t even thought about going into Corban’s room to check. All the detectives said she’d given her baby to a killer. How could she live with that?

Now she had the chance to make up for it. She was wearing a tape recorder, and the police were listening in on her conversation. She was supposed to act natural and try to get Wade to confess. But how did you act natural with the person who’d killed your son?

They said start out reluctant. Make him do the work.

“This is so fucked up,” she mumbled.

Sitting a few feet away, Amberlee gave Wade a dirty look and said, “This is my home and you’re not welcome in it.”

Tonya hadn’t told Amberlee about the tape recorder, but one of the TV people had said it would look bad if they let Wade stay after he was let out. Amberlee didn’t want to piss them off. She had an agent now and was going to do an exclusive interview on TV. She said they could make five times as much if Tonya used her brains and agreed to be on the show as well.

Wade said, “I got nowhere else to go.”

“What about your buddies?” Tonya asked.

“Come on, babe.” He reached for her hand, but Tonya snatched it away and covered her face.

“I saw the clothes. God, Wade. What did you do? He’s just a baby.

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