The Perfect Marriage by Mitzner Adam

Author:Mitzner, Adam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2021-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

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The last time Jessica was in a police station had been when she was sixteen. She had made the mistake of accepting an offer from Ricky Solowosky to drive her home from a party at Andrea Levy’s house. They hit a DUI roadblock as soon as they reached Ryder’s Lane, and although Ricky was under the legal limit, the fact that he was seventeen and had been drinking was enough for the cops to scare the bejesus out of him.

She didn’t remember anything about the police station from that first time except that she was scared to death. She wasn’t scared this time, however. She felt nothing. As if she were dead herself.

The room she was placed in could scarcely have been made more unpleasant if that had been the police department’s intent. It was almost as cold as it was outside, forcing her to keep on her gloves and coat. There were zero windows, battleship-gray walls, a single metal table, and four metal chairs. At least it didn’t have the one-way mirror, although Jessica figured that meant only that they were filming her from somewhere else.

The young woman with an Arabic-sounding name said that she and her partner, the handsome man who’d broken the news of James’s death, would return shortly. She asked if Jessica wanted anything to eat or drink, even offering to go out to get her something. Jessica declined. She was already sick to her stomach, and the thought of food, or even coffee, made her want to throw up.

Jessica had watched enough TV to know that the spouse was always the first suspect. Another thing she knew from television was that many a suspect made the mistake that ended up getting them convicted in this exact setting. On the other hand, she also knew that cops found it suspicious if the victim’s spouse was uncooperative. Which meant that, no matter what she did, she was about to make a grave mistake.

The handsome lieutenant entered the room, the female officer who had offered to get her food a step behind him.

“I introduced myself earlier, but I know that with everything that has happened, remembering names is difficult. I’m Lieutenant Velasquez. This is my partner, Detective Jamali. We’re both very sorry for your loss, Ms. Sommers.”

Her inquisitors made a handsome couple, and Jessica wondered if they were, in fact, a couple. He might be a tad old for her, probably Jessica’s age, if she had to guess. The female detective looked no more than thirty.

“As I told you before, the first few hours in an investigation are the most critical,” he continued. “We know that this is an extremely difficult time for you, but we have to ask you some questions that will hopefully help us catch whoever did this to your husband.”

Jessica felt the need to hear her own voice. “Yes. Anything I can do.”

“Thank you. How long had you and James been married?”

Jessica wondered if the lieutenant consciously used the past tense to bring home that James was truly gone or if it was what he always said in these situations.

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