Witness by Denise Gwen

Author:Denise Gwen [Gwen, Denise]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Barone Literary Agency
Published: 2018-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

32

Friday, March 15, 6:45 p.m.

With only the most cursory of knocks, Margie walked into Randy’s office, stood across from his desk, and grinned at him.

What the fuck are you so happy about?

“Yeah,” Randy said. “Better get it over with, eh?”

“Sure thing,” she said, not really answering him.

“Tell’em I’ll be there in a minute.”

“Okay,” she said, and left his office.

He used the facilities, washed his hands, then walked out to the front door of the Sheriff’s Office and stood on the top of the steps with a microphone and a podium already set up for him by Rob, and pulled the notes he’d prepared from his front breast pocket and proceeded to read from the script.

At his arrival, a phalanx of reporters crowded near.

“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the press. As you all know, my beautiful wife, Miranda Randalls, killed herself a week and a half ago.”

A hushed murmur followed this comment.

“Obviously, I’m devastated.”

To his surprise, he did not lose his composure.

“I do fully understand, that as a public servant, even though I do not like it, unlike the rest of you, I must conduct myself in public, even during matters of deep despair.”

Josie had added that part in, and he’d argued with her about it; he said he didn’t talk in that high-falutin’ way, but she convinced him; he practiced it a few times, and he’d come to appreciate and admire her for insisting on it, for as the words had their impact on the assembled reporters, he saw a few people look, if not approvingly, then at least with a measure of respect. And it was fine. at least they appeared to be taking it all at face value.

They were buying it, if nothing else.

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