The Pirate Ghost by Pender Laura

Author:Pender, Laura [Pender, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-25T22:09:04+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“You don’t really expect me to believe this story, do you?”

Detective Sergeant Wilkes put his hands on his hips and looked at Tess as though he’d just uncovered an entirely new class of fool. She hadn’t asked for him when she called 911 for fear of exactly this reaction, but he’d come anyway. And now she knew that Gabriel had been right when he’d counseled against calling the police.

“Yes,” she said, “I do expect you to believe me, because it’s the truth.”

“Lady, you wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you,” Wilkes scoffed.

“What about the broken window and the footprints outside,” she argued. “What about the razor blade and the pictures knocked down from the wall in my room? How do you account for that?”

“Oh, please, do I have to go through all the ways you screwed up when you fabricated the evidence?” he asked sarcastically.

She gasped. “Fabricated!”

“Yes, fabricated,” he insisted. “First of all, anybody can buy a razor blade and knock a couple pictures off a wall. And you blew it with the window because it was obviously broken out, not in. If you break a window to get into some place, the glass will land on the floor inside, not in a flower bed.”

“He didn’t break it coming in! He did that in the fight!”

“The fight where you forcibly threw him out the window?”

“Yes.”

“Stop insulting my intelligence. You didn’t throw an intruder out of here any more than you threw your husband out before. You’re lying.”

“Is this attitude of yours just to compensate for the lousy search you did earlier?” Tess asked recklessly.

“You neglected to tell us that you weren’t renting the garage,” he said angrily. “You set us up to find the knife. You wanted to be certain it wasn’t usable in court.”

“I didn’t know the knife was there and I didn’t know it made any difference anyway,” Tess insisted. “When will you people figure out that you’re investigating the wrong person?”

“We’re not,” he said. “All we need is new proof.”

“What about the footprints outside my window?”

“You put on a pair of men’s shoes and faked it.”

“So where are the shoes now? Search the house again if you want. Where are the man’s muddy shoes that I’m supposed to have used?”

“You could have thrown them in the neighbor’s trash- All I know is that you went to a K mart and purchased men’s clothing on your way home this evening. A pair of shoes was among the items you bought.”

“Oh, hell,” Tess sighed. “You people haven’t wasted any time in trying to make my life into a total disaster, have you?”

“Just quit trying to outmaneuver us, Miss Miller,” Wilkes said smugly. “You’re wasting everybody’s time. we had a car passing here every five minutes and nobody saw anyone enter or leave the house after you came home.”

“He came in through my bedroom window in the rear of the house,” Tess insisted. “Of course you didn’t see him.”

“How very convenient for you. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to get home.

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