What Lies In The Past: A British Murder Mystery by Ben Dunn

Author:Ben Dunn [Dunn, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Burn Publishing
Published: 2024-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

“Are we not telling him we are coming?” Simon asked.

I flashed him a look of disgust and he didn’t react because he had become used to that over the years. We were heading to the squad car and he was going to be the passenger. I was speaking, using words to explain thoughts I had been having a long time.

“That would be dumb,” I say.

“It would be polite,” he told me, and I stopped walking.

He eventually noticed, turned and walked back to me.

“What?” he asked.

“You are getting too loud,” I told him. “You are giving too much away.”

“What are you talking about?” he asked.

“You talk too much, to too many people. I get that you want to seem important, seem smart. But when you are talking and holding court and you have locals sat transfixed and silently listening to your stories, that isn’t respect, that is people gaining insider knowledge. It makes you, to them, seem an even bigger fool,” I said.

“What the hell is that?” he asked, and he leaned toward me.

“It is what you know it is. It is a warning to stop, and it is me telling you that I know. You can’t be secretive in a pub in any town let alone ours. People speak and I hear. Stop being a joke.”

He opened his mouth, but nothing came.

“Get in the car,” I told him, and he did, and we sat there in silence as the engine turned over.

“I know I have you,” I said, while staring ahead. “I hear and I know. I’ve kept you out as much as I can, and I have let you in when I need certain things to get out. You be careful. Friends aren’t gained through what you are doing. Careers end because of it though.”

I had spoken to Jackie and she had passed on information. The gossip was still hot and Simon was someone who people figured knew more than most. He wanted to be popular, wanted to feel respect, but he couldn’t understand what was real and what was not. He shot his mouth, and talked and gave hints saying he was unable to give details, but he suggested and dropped clues so people would stay and listen. He was small town, and not bright at that.

“I haven’t done anything,” he said.

“I’m not too sure you believe that,” I told him. “And if you do it just means you are dumber than I thought.”

“You can’t speak to me that way,” he said.

“I’ll speak to you how you deserve. If you want friends and respect and some level of belonging, don’t do what you do. But this is wasted words. You think you are too smart for all this. Believe me, you aren’t.”

I understood I was being cruel, but that was needed. There was nothing to be gained in keeping quiet and letting it go. Without a word he would move on to bigger and better lies, and have the whole town know he couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

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