The Girl in Town (A Chesapeake Valley Mystery Book 1) by Elle Gray

Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Gray
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

It was the first arrest Eve had made in a while and she knew that, in some unfortunate ways, Cohen was right. She didn’t have enough to hold him unless she got new evidence. But, it had been satisfying to cram him into the back of the Tahoe. He jabbered the whole ride back about how stupid and incompetent she was, and how he was going to sue her into oblivion.

Sharon and Eve stared at the back of his slicked-back hair from behind the two-way glass.

Eve asked, “How’s Georgia?”

“She’s okay…” Sharon said. “She wants to see her mom, I think.”

“Soon,” Eve said. “You took her where I told you?”

Sharon nodded.

Eve didn’t want to risk Cohen and Georgia being in the same building after all that had happened between them. Their threads were interwoven and she had to unwind them string by string or cut through it all with a stitch ripper.

“You sure this is a good idea?” Sharon asked.

“I need to put some pressure on him,” Eve said. “I had enough to bring him in.”

“Not enough to charge him though,” Sharon said.

“I know that.”

Eve crossed her arms.

“Sorry,” Sharon said. “I know you know what you’re doing.”

Eve sighed and said, “I hope so.”

Cohen was uncomfortably confident when Eve entered the room. He had requested a coffee and a water, and he was switching his sips equally between them. He smiled at her as she came in. She was certain at this point that he had veneers, or that his front teeth were fake because of how big and white they were.

“I can’t even tell you all the reasons why you’re making a huge mistake,” he said with a smile.

“What exactly do you think I’m wrong about?”

“That I killed Springer,” he said.

“And what about Georgia Turnbull?”

“Well… now that is more complicated.”

“I’d love to hear how wrong you think I am,” Eve said and sat down.

“You are charming, Sheriff. You do have a way of talking to people that I would think comes from someone in your family… Not your father, obviously. Not that he isn’t charming, but just not in the same way that you are. Not in the same way your mother was… I would think anyway.”

Eve pressed her lips into a line. “Let’s keep this to Georgia for now.”

“I find you much more interesting,” he said.

Eve didn’t say anything. There was a lot she wanted to say. She thought about moving his coffee out of reach, just far enough from his long fingers so he would have to strain for it. As conveniently inconvenient as possible.

“Georgia wanted to leave,” he said after he didn’t get the reaction that he wanted. “She came to me in tears. Almost every day. Every week. She would beg me to help her go somewhere else, anywhere else. I, being the sympathetic man that I am, helped her. I gave her a job. She was on staff. How was I to know that it was a false identity? Here I thought, Liza Garrett was her real name and Georgia was the nickname.

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