Velvet Sapphire (A Peyton Brooks Homicide: The Early Cases Book 3) by M.L. Hamilton

Author:M.L. Hamilton [Hamilton, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-02T16:00:00+00:00

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When Peyton and Marco arrived at the front of the precinct, they saw Roberta and Felipe faced off against one another on the other side of the counter, arguing, while Julio Rodrigo lounged at Maria’s desk, swiveling the chair back and forth.

Marco grumbled something and started for Julio, who scrambled out of the chair and darted through the half-door, holding up his hands. Peyton’s gaze volleyed back and forth between Roberta and Felipe, trying to catch what they were saying, but it was in rapid Spanish and there was no way she was going to be able to translate it that quickly.

“Stop!” she shouted.

They stopped abruptly and looked at her.

“What is going on?”

Roberta pointed her finger in Felipe’s face. “He killed her!”

Felipe slapped her hand away. “Shut your lying mouth, bruja!”

“Pervertido!” she shot back.

“Enough!” shouted Peyton.

Julio looked around the fighting pair. “They’re both guilty, if you ask me. They probably plotted it together.” He made a rude motion with his finger through the circle of his thumb and index finger on his other hand. “They were…you know…behind Ynes’s back.”

“¡Càllate, lechero!” said Felipe, going chest to chest with Julio.

“¡Vete a la mierda!”

Marco walked menacingly over to the half-door and yanked it open. “You!” he pointed at Roberta. “In there.” He indicated the conference room. “Cho, take this one…” He grabbed Felipe by the arm and yanked him through the door. “…to interrogation. And you!” He sneered at Julio. “Go with Detective Simons.”

Peyton glanced around as Cho and Simons moved to do what he asked. She hadn’t even known they were watching the whole scene.

Once everyone was distributed to the locations Marco had indicated, he faced Peyton. “Who do you want to tackle first?”

Peyton tilted her head toward the conference room. Might as well start with the closest one.

They stepped into the room and found the makeup artist pacing back and forth along the length of the table.

“He killed her! I know it!”

Peyton held out a hand and motioned to the chair in front of Roberta. “Why don’t you take a seat?”

She yanked out the chair and dropped into it, crossing her arms over her chest.

Peyton sat down across from her, and Marco took a spot at the head of the table.

“What brought this on?”

“I knew that cabrón was going to come here and tell you I did it, but I bet he’s the one who killed her.”

“Why would he do either of those things?”

Roberta huffed and looked away.

“Roberta, you need to tell us everything.”

Roberta’s shoulders slumped and she looked at the table. “I don’t like to speak ill of the dead, per se.”

“Well, we need to find out who killed Ynes, so anything you know might help us.”

“Ynes, that bitch, was so sweet, but she wanted to be famous. She wanted to be famous more than anything. She told me she would do anything for fame.”

“Such as what?”

Roberta shook her head, her eyes liquid. “Marry that lechero Urban. Sleep with Felipe. Sleep with Julio.”

“She was sleeping with both Felipe and Julio?”

“No, she used to sleep with Felipe.

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