Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story (The Adrien English Mysteries) by Josh Lanyon

Author:Josh Lanyon [Lanyon, Josh]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-06-10T17:00:00+00:00

You don’t see Detective Riordan for a few days and by then things have changed pretty dramatically. You’re dating Bruce, Claude has informed you that Riordan is not only gay, he’s involved in the BDSM scene, and then Claude himself is murdered.

Riordan shows up right after the crime scene people arrive. “How are you doing?” he asks, and he seems genuinely concerned in his terse way.

You’re dismayed by how much you want to believe his concern is genuine. After all, you know first hand what a violent temper he has. Claude tried to blackmail Riordan and now Claude is dead. Coincidence? It seems unlikely.

“Still kicking,” you say, or words to that effect.

“You feel up to making a statement?”

Not really. In fact, your chest is tight, your left arm is numb, and your heart is skipping every couple of beats. But you’re more afraid of dragging attention to your physical frailties than you are of having a heart attack, so you nod.

Riordan gives you a measuring look. “Let’s step over here.” He gives you his suede jacket and he has you sit in his car while he questions you.

You try to stay calm, but you’ve just come face to face with a murderer and lost one of your best friends. And you’re not absolutely sure that Riordan isn’t somehow part of this. You don’t want to think it, but…

You tell him everything that happened. He doesn’t take notes. Why? He just listens to you, nodding slowly to himself. It’s just you and him. No one else can hear your conversation, and that worries you too. Why has he taken you out of earshot of the other crime scene personnel?

Meanwhile, he keeps picking and pulling at your story. “Skull mask? You mean like the mask you saw on the prowler outside your apartment?”

You assent.

“Or do you think you saw something, say a white ski mask, and your mind made the connection?”

“No.”

“You said yourself it all happened pretty fast.”

“I know what I saw. A skull mask. Like you buy at Halloween. The same mask. The same man. Hefty. Your height. Your build.” You can’t control your voice. You start to shake.

Riordan watches you like you’re something unpredictable and dangerous. “Okay. Bring it down a notch, Adrien.”

“See, I have this problem,” you tell him. “There is such an obvious link between everything that has happened that a blind man could see it, but somehow you don’t see it. So I am asking myself, why don’t you see it? Because you don’t want to? Or because you don’t want anyone else to?”

“Lower your voice.”

You do lower your voice but that’s because you can’t catch your breath. In fact, you’re really in trouble now, and you know it. Your body is bathed in cold sweat. Pain radiates from your shoulder all the way down your left arm. There’s a crushing weight on your chest and you feel a sense of impending doom.

“What’s wrong?” Detective Riordan asks from a long way away. “Adrien?”

“Heart,” you gasp out. “My heart…” You close your eyes.

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