The Playboy's Redemption by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, african american, short story, novella, christian fiction
Publisher: Vanessa Miller

CHAPTER EIGHT

Shawn and Lily sat in the kitchen with Melvin Cotrell and Detective Ron Jones. The kids were asleep so they were able to speak freely about Paris Holmes. Detective Jones had pen and paper in hand, Melvin nodded toward Shawn. “Okay, first off, Detective Jones, I want you to know that I will do everything I can to help you find Paris’s killer.”

“I wish you had felt this way a few days ago. The trail is getting colder by the minute,” Jones said.

“I know, and I’m sorry about that. But I couldn’t tell you why I went over to Paris’s house without making sure that I wouldn’t be hurting Lily.”

“Why would Lily be affected by what you had to tell me?” Jones asked.

“Shawn went to see Paris because I asked him to talk to her,” Lily responded honestly.

“I see,” Jones said, “And why did you ask him to talk to her?”

“Paris had been bothering me ever since Imani was born. First she wanted me to talk to Shawn and get him to admit that Imani was his… but I couldn’t do that. So then she got this hair brained idea about us being in a reality show together.”

“What kind of reality show?” Jones asked.

“Something about football wives… but I told her that I wasn’t married to Shawn, so I wasn’t going on any show with such a title. Nor would I do any reality show. I just think the women on those shows are too catty.”

“Okay, you mentioned that Paris wanted you to convince Shawn to claim his daughter, but you didn’t want to… why is that?”

“I can answer that question for you, detective,” Shawn piped up. “If I claimed Imani as my child, Lily was worried that she might end up getting less child support money per month.”

Lily hit Shawn in the arm. “Stop being a jerk.”

“Stop being a gold digger.”

“You know what, I wish I’d never said anything to you at all. You are so childish.” Lily stood up and stalked out of the room without a backwards glance.

Jones glared at Shawn. “Did you really have to antagonize her while I was interviewing her?”

Still sulking, Shawn pouted, “I wasn’t trying to antagonize nobody. I was just stating a fact.”

“Well all right then, Mr. Fact-Stater, is the money issue the reason you thought Lily might have killed Paris?”

Shawn raised his hands, calling for a time out. “Whoa, wait a minute. I never said I thought Lily killed anybody.” He pointed in the direction where Lily had stormed out of the kitchen. “Go ask her. The night Paris was killed, Lily was at church with about seven hundred witnesses.”

“Okay, since the two of you obviously can’t be in the same room together, I’ll finish with you first and then go ask her,” Jones said and then asked, “So, why did Lily ask you to speak with Paris?”

Shawn was hesitant to answer the question. He was worried that in his anger he might say something that would hurt Lily. And no matter how ticked off he was with her, he would never want to cause her harm.

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