The Case of the Sin City Sendoff In Las Vegas: A Cozy Tiffany Black Mystery (Tiffany Black Cases Book 25) by A.R. Winters

Author:A.R. Winters [Winters, A.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

At Brandon’s house, his wife Toni answered the door with a look of grim satisfaction on her face. We hadn’t called ahead, but it appeared as if she were expecting us .

“I figured you’d be back,” she said, stepping back from the doorway “come in, come in.”

She led us into the kitchen and we sat at a round table with mugs of coffee. She had something she wanted to tell us and I let her do it in her own time. There was no need for any pushiness or to give her a metaphorical squeeze, so we waited patiently until she was good and ready to spill what it was she wanted to say.

Once the coffee was ready, so was she.

The kitchen table was against the wall, and on the wall edge was a picture frame. Toni had knocked it over, and now it was, very deliberately, lying face down. Things were not going well in this household.

“He won’t be back tonight,” Toni said. “I kicked him out yesterday evening.”

“Oh?”

Toni nodded. “He’s a liar. I can’t trust him. First, he comes home with some woman’s hair on his shirt, smelling of her perfume. And now, I find out that he lied about that night he was at the bachelor party!”

I tried not to get too excited.

“Oh?” I said again, leaning forward a little more, my hands gripped more tightly around my coffee mug. “What did he lie about?”

“He told me he came back around midnight,” Toni said. “But he didn’t! You know what time he got in?”

“Was it very late?” Rosie said.

“I’ll say! It was six in the morning! Six! Six!”

Rosie’s eyebrows came together in thought. “You watched your doorbell camera footage, right?”

Toni broke into a smile, and nodded quickly at Rosie. “You noticed that, huh? Yep. Exactly. After you came here to speak to him, I started stewing. There’s no smoke without fire, right? You wouldn’t have been here if Brandon wasn’t mixed up in something or other. Last night, I remembered the doorbell. I went back through the footage and guess what I saw?”

“You just said he came in around six in the morning,” I said. “Did you see something else that was interesting?”

“Did I ever. You wanna see?”

Yes, yes we did want to see.

Toni pulled up the app for her high-tech doorbell on her iPad. She had the footage ready to roll already. I figured she’d been watching it on repeat. I wondered what we were going to see. Perhaps Brandon being dropped off by another woman?

But no.

It was weirder than that.

On the screen, we saw Brandon climb out of a car. From the way he got out of the back and said goodbye to the driver, I figured it was a rideshare of some kind.

“That an Uber?” Rosie asked, on the same page as me.

“Yes,” Toni said. “I checked our bank account after I first watched this, and that’s exactly what it is.”

Brandon walked up to the front door, but before letting himself in, he stopped and dug something out of his pocket.

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