Walk the Right Road: The Complete Series by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Eckhart, Lorhainne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart
Published: 2014-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Diane wasn’t home when Maggie pulled in. Ryley said nothing as he frantically clutched the seat belt across his chest. Maggie leaned back and really looked at Ryley, with his pale face, staring like any frightened child whose world had been rocked again.

“Ryley, I know you’re scared. So am I. But Diane and Sam are going to help.”

He turned only his head to face her. “Did Dad kill Dan?”

The way his innocent yet worldly gaze searched and pleaded for her honesty, she knew if she lied, their shaky bond would be forever severed.

“I don’t know anything, Ryley, but your dad wouldn’t do something like that. I’m being honest with you. I don’t know how long Diane’s going to be. Do you want me to take you to one of your friends’?”

He shook his head. “I’m not leaving. I want to know what’s going on.”

Maggie nodded and sucked her lower lip between her teeth. She couldn’t shelter Ryley. She touched his arm. “Let’s go in and wait.”

Maggie dug out the spare key hidden under the big rock in the flower garden and had just shoved the key in the lock when Diane drove in, spewing gravel and dirt. She jumped out of her SUV dressed in her uniform and slammed her door.

“Diane, what did you find out?”

Diane wiped her damp forehead as she stepped onto her front porch and glanced at Ryley.

“He needs to hear what’s going on, Diane,” Maggie said. “I promised Ryley I wouldn’t keep the truth from him.”

Diane slid open the door and motioned them in. She flicked on the kitchen light as the sunrise didn’t quite fill the dim room. “Right now, Richard’s being questioned. I couldn’t get in there, and I was called into my boss’ office and ordered to stay out of the investigation. They know we’re friends. The IPB’s been called in to investigate my link with Richard. This happened so fast it doesn’t make sense. I did find out, before I got my hand slapped, that a call came in early this evening to 911. Untraceable number. No idea who called, just that it was a woman. She said Dan McKenzie was dead. She gave the operator Richard’s name as the man who killed him, and she said he did it at the last house built on Richard and Dan’s property, the one just dry-walled. When the police arrived, there was blood everywhere. Two nine-millimeter slugs were found at the scene, and there was enough blood for it to be ruled a homicide.”

“I don’t understand. You just said ‘enough blood.’ What about Dan?”

“There was no body. The detectives assigned have concluded the body was moved.”

“Diane, that makes absolutely no sense. If there’s no body, how can they say Dan was murdered? Maybe it’s not even his blood.”

Diane waved her hands in front of her face to stop Maggie’s rant. “Look, Maggie, they’ve built cases with far less. The crime scene technicians will type-match the blood to Dan’s from his medical records. They’ll reconstruct the scene.

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