A Pie in the Hand (Pacific Pies Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Violet McCloud

Author:Violet McCloud [McCloud, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Decadent Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Before any more could happen, I was whisked away to the police station. Well almost not any more. Detective Aguirre—who would never be Roger to me again after the way he acted—called for backup and a team loaded my cart into the back of a van. They bagged the blood-encrusted knife. The detective escorted me, hands humiliatingly cuffed behind my back, to his car and cupped his hand over my head while settling me into the back seat.

He did not read me my rights, however.

Why not?

Although I wanted to say a lot of things, even without being read the Mirandas, I suspected anything I said would be used against me anyway, so I opted for silence on the ride to the station. Which took about three minutes. I supposed I should be grateful he hadn’t walked me down the street in cuffs all the way there, increasing the humiliation factor to the stars.

If he’d parked in their little parking lot instead of a block away, it might have helped even more. Everyone in town seemed to be out, shopping, dining at the outdoor restaurants, and strolling the streets on this beautiful day. A day that would be marked in my mind forever. A day that would ruin me. Who would want to buy hand pies from a murderess? Did he really think I was a killer? Sure, I’d been a suspect, or at least a “person of interest,” but I’d never thought he truly believed I did it. He’d seemed to be trying to protect me, unless I’d entirely misread his behavior.

I just wanted to go home, pull the covers over my head, and hide for a year. Or maybe, when and if my cart was ever released again, load it on the trailer and set out for somewhere far away where nobody thought I killed people because they tried to buy my house. Or for whatever reason the detective thought I had.

By the time he led me into the interrogation room at the station, the words I wanted to say, many of which would color the air blue, were fairly bursting out of me, but before I could let them out, he closed the door behind us, pulled a key from his pocket and unlocked the cuffs. Then spun me to face him.

“That should do it.”

Everything I intended to let loose faded at the relaxed, friendly smile on his face. I didn’t even want to punch him in the eye…much. “Should d-do what? I thought murder suspects were cuffed to the table in here, at least they are on TV.”

He grinned. What the hell was wrong with him? Satisfaction at having apprehended an evil-doer? How the heck would I manage to convince him otherwise. “Sit down, Chloe. I have some questions for you.”

I shook out my tingling fingers. “Are we alone or is there a two-way mirror somewhere?”

The detective shook his head. “You do watch a lot of television. I suppose some stations still have those, but we rely on a camera to live-stream our meeting.

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