And the Devil Walks Away by Kevin R. Doyle

Author:Kevin R. Doyle [Doyle, Kevin R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery Suspense
Publisher: MuseItUp Publishing
Published: 2020-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

Saturday, Sept. 21st

“LAY IT OUT for me,” Conroy said.

It was the following morning, and the two of them had met for breakfast in a little diner adjacent to Helen’s hotel. They’d only spent about an hour at the police station after Conroy’s appearance before being allowed to go on their way, with the admonishment that she may have to come back to the area as a witness, assuming Brounton ever got to trial.

After Conroy had spoken briefly with the cops, Grierson and his captain had headed out to confer privately for about five minutes before returning. Coming back, their attitude, especially the captain’s, had been a whole lot more deferential. For once, Helen hadn’t minded the presence of an expensive, superstar defense lawyer.

All she’d wanted to do was to get away from any prying eyes or ears and fill Conroy in on what Brounton had told her. But as soon as they’d exited the station, she nearly collapsed from exhaustion. Conroy drove her back to the hotel, and they’d made a date for breakfast in the morning.

“The next stop is Oklahoma City,” she said while buttering an English muffin.

Conroy stared at her for a minute, his brows drawing together.

“Excuse me?”

“Oklahoma City. Gray moved there a few years back, chasing some girl, according to Brounton.”

“And you’re sure that your new best friend is being straight up about this?”

“Come on, Gordon. Don’t tell me you haven’t had your firm backtracking every inch of Gray’s life, looking for some connection between him and Benson. Probably long before you called me in.”

The lawyer grinned and chewed a bite of his omelette before answering.

“Of course we did,” he said after taking a sip of orange juice. “We even know the name of the girl he went after. But she split a few weeks after, and all Gray did down there was work in a bar for a few months. Then he tucked tail, pardon the expression, and came back here.”

“Right.” Helen nodded. “For all of a few weeks before heading off to Denver, and we both know what happened from there.”

“Okay, so what’s the point? Gray left town, got his heart broken, kept on with the same kind of dead end job he’s always had, then eventually chucked it all to kill a girl in Denver and get in the slammer. So what’s the point?”

Helen took a moment to compose the answer. From the little bit Brounton had said before the cops hustled him away, a theory of the entire case was starting to form. Vague as hell, to be sure. Nebulous, actually, and with far more holes than facts in it. And that was even assuming the lowlife had been on the level with her.

But her brain must have been working overtime while she’d slept because waking up that morning she’d seen the glimmers of a pattern.

“It’s like this,” she said. “According to Brounton, and you’ve got to take that for whatever it’s worth, seeing as the guy’s a freakin’ killer, when Gray came back from Oklahoma he’d changed.

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