Sleepwalker by Price Jordan Castillo

Author:Price, Jordan Castillo [Price, Jordan Castillo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay mystery, gay thriller, Mystery, mm thriller, Romance, gay amateur sleuth, gay romance, Suspense, MM Romance, mm mystery, Crime, Paranormal, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781935540144
Goodreads: 8471030
Publisher: JCP Books LLC
Published: 2010-06-18T07:00:00+00:00

11

ALEX WAS TALKING SERIOUS and low to the cop in the suit—his softball buddy, Bobby. Faris only had two police departments, so of course the one handling the murder was the one where we knew everyone. Very awkward. “But Web was with me,” Alex was saying.

Bobby said, “And what, he sleeps in the same bed with you and Kathy?”

“Don’t be a—”

“I’m just saying that he could have come and gone a dozen times while the two of you were asleep, isn’t that so? Listen, this is the first murder since the lead rush days. If we fuck it up, we look like a bunch of backward hicks. Don’t worry. I won’t mess with your brother.”

“Cousin.”

“You know what I mean.”

Kathy glanced over from where she was marking off the petroglyph alcove with black and yellow crime scene tape. We lived in the same house, so obviously I was used to seeing her in uniform—Alex called her the Tidy Bowl Man, or Tidy for short—but I’d never seen her doing anything more official than handing out a traffic citation. I couldn’t decide whether I should be worried that she wouldn’t be allowed to question me, or relieved.

“You know how sound carries in our house,” Alex said. “When he goes up and down the stairs, we hear it. Besides, you’ve known him since he was a kid. Take it easy, would you?”

“Questioning him will only take a minute. I swear—on my mother’s grave.”

My eye twitched. His mother was alive. Jag.

“C’mon, Web,” he said to me, cutting Alex off with a “stop” hand gesture. “The less we roam around here contaminating the area, the better. Let’s go sit down in the cruiser. I’ll take your statement.”

I wondered if I should lawyer up—but I wasn’t stupid. There was no way in hell I could do it without looking incredibly guilty. No one knew I was missing three hours but Jesse and Alex, and neither of them would rat me out. Right?

We got in the cruiser. Bobby stared through the windshield at the side of the Center while I watched him through my hair, doing my best to look like I wasn’t looking at him. He was blond, really blond, to the point where even his eyelashes were pale. Stocky, too—not much of a neck. “That’s something,” he said, “ain’t it, seeing your boss covered in blood, stuffed in a fake cave.”

“Are you going for a Law and Order delivery, or what? Last time I checked we were in New Faris, not New York.”

“Tell me you were nowhere near this place when Presioso got his head beat in and give me a real good reason why your shirt’s covered in blood, and we got no problem with each other.”

“This is Marvin’s blood—he bled all over the bathroom sink and left it for me to clean up. I don’t know when Luke was killed, so I have no idea if I’ve got an alibi or not. I was here for my last shift until seven, then I went home and slept until nine, grabbed Alex and came back.

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