All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato
Author:Terri Parlato [Parlato, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2022-09-26T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 35
Molly
IâM FINALLY HOME. RELIEF SPILLED OFF MY SHOULDERS AS I WALKED through the front door. I donât ever want to see the mountain house again.
Detective Fuller dropped Alice off first, and now heâs waiting for Corrine to show up before he leaves for the station. Iâve switched on all the lights and turned on my laptop to check my security cameras. I canât seem to settle. At least we beat the media. We passed a white satellite truck going toward the mountain house as we left, and I breathed a sigh of relief that weâd missed it.
âAre you sure I canât make you a cup of tea, Mrs. Bradley?â Detective Fuller stands by the counter, as if waiting for instructions, his brown eyes full of concern.
âNo. Thank you. Iâm fine.â But Iâm not fine, and he knows it. All the way back, he asked me questions about myself, but I deflected the best I could. I hope that doesnât make me look as though Iâm hiding something, which I am, but nothing to do with that womanâs murder. I tried instead to talk to Alice, reassure her. She was awfully quiet on the way back, and Hayes was upset when I spoke to him on the phone. But Alice rallied when we got close to her house and told me she was fine. She seemed pretty much back to normal. I hope so.
* * *
With Detective Fuller gone, Corrine sits with me at the kitchen table. Although Iâm not hungry, she brought takeout Chinese and drinks since I havenât eaten all day.
âWhat happened, Molly?â
âThey think that missing woman was probably killed the night she disappeared and buried by the river just down from the house while we were asleep inside!â I take a deep breath. Talk myself down, look to Corrine. âJay mightâve found the necklace in the yard when he went up to fix the window. Thatâs what I think.â I glance away from my laptop, the camera feed on Jayâs office on the screen. âIt was terrifying, Corrine. What Alice and I saw.â Iâd already described it to her on the phone and donât want to think about it again.
Corrine rubs my arm. âTry to eat something. Did you ever call that therapist Elise referred you to?â
I swallow, poke at my lo mein. âI will. I definitely will.â I try to hold them back, but tears slip down my cheeks.
âHey, Iâm here. Itâs going to be okay.â
I sniff. âWhat if they think Jay killed that woman? Itâs not possible, but I get the feeling they think he was involved.â
âThatâs crazy. Jay wasnât a killer.â
âWhat if someone back in Mountclair thinks he did it and thatâs who killed him? Why else would someone kill Jay? There has to be a connection, Corrine.â
âDidnât you say the woman had a boyfriend and they were fighting before she disappeared? Itâs usually the husband or the boyfriend, right?â
âYeah. That could be, and then maybe he thought that Jay saw him, and thatâs why he killed Jay.
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