What Happened Last Night by Cole Baxter

Author:Cole Baxter [Baxter, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

William

I was pacing the floor of the lounge. I kept glancing out the window, waiting for the detective’s car to leave. What the hell was he doing parked outside my house for so long? It was making me even more nervous than I had felt when he was inside. At least then, I had known what he was up to. His tactic wasn’t exactly subtle. He had twisted everything I said, tried to stress me out so I would fuck up and say too much. I was too clever for him, though. I had seen through him and not given him anything.

I had managed to hold myself together until Detective Del Rey left and hung around like this. Now, though, my palms were sweating, and my breaths were coming too fast. I was likely to give myself a damned heart attack at this rate. I noticed that the detective was talking on his cellphone and I relaxed a little. He was obviously just returning calls. I still didn’t like his being here, though.

When he finally pulled away, I breathed a big sigh of relief, but my nerves were still jangling somewhat. He had practically accused me of killing Candy to cover up her pregnancy. I genuinely hadn’t known she was pregnant until the memory came back to me in my dream, but I couldn’t admit that to the detective without admitting that my memories of the night Candy was killed where coming back. He had no proof I knew about Candy’s pregnancy, though. I mean, how could he? I didn’t know until Candy blurted it out in our bedroom that night, and it’s not like she could tell him about that. I knew Carlotta wouldn’t have told him that part. She had to keep up the lie that she remembered nothing from that night.

It was still a problem, though. And it would become an even bigger problem if the detective started poking around in my past and discovered that Candy wasn’t the first girl from work I’d had an affair with. It wasn’t so much a problem that he knew that. I knew I was right about that not being a crime. The problem was how my affairs invariably ended. The last thing I needed was some bitch with a grudge against me saying I had threatened her or some shit. That would give the detective ammunition against me, something he could use to show a pattern of behavior. A pattern that could well have ended in murder, in his mind. And in a jury member’s mind.

Fucking Carlotta. Why did she have to let jealousy get the better of her and kill Candy? Why couldn’t she just let me take care of it and get the restraining order? That woman was the source of all my problems. She pushed me into the arms of other women and then reacted like this when it happened. It might have been better all-around if Carlotta had been the one who was murdered.

I shook my head, shaking the thought away.

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