Bell to Pay by Jeremy Waldron

Author:Jeremy Waldron [Waldron, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Five

“What she’s suggesting is that the insulin pump malfunctioned.” King turned his attention to his partner who was still twirling Donny’s insulin pump inside his hand, shaking his head.

“Everything is connected,” Alvarez said without looking up.

“What are you saying, that maybe it was hacked?”

Alvarez lifted his gaze, stared out over the dash, and shrugged. “Maybe. Donny was a computer guy and we live in a world where machines are more eager to learn than humans. It’s why jobs are being outsourced to robots. It won’t be long before we’re half-robot, half-human.”

King stopped listening halfway through his partner’s rant. Looking through the glare in the windshield glass, King did think that maybe Alvarez was right about one thing. Perhaps, the device could have been hacked. “Rose did say that Donny had enemies.”

“Yeah. But could a paper reporter pull off a murder like this?”

Alvarez sounded skeptical, and King was, too. The crowd was still marching across the street from Donny Counts’s house, shouting obscenities toward Rose’s front door. Something didn’t seem right about this—even Rose’s excuse for calling them seemed a bit farfetched.

“There is no crime scene here,” King shook his head and said softly.

Slowly, his fingers curled into his palm until squeezing into a tight fist. He was feeling as frustrated with this assignment as he knew Alvarez was. Worse, he was still thinking of the boy who was shot dead in the streets last night, and how the case would turn cold, just like the previous gang-related murders, because the city cared more about the rich than the poor.

“You see that?” King pointed to a picket sign that caught his attention.

Alvarez squinted behind his dark sunglasses. “And why would that man think Thompson and Counts are thieves?”

“Maybe that was what Rose was referring to?”

“Journalists just don’t go writing stories to slander people’s reputations.” Alvarez didn’t understand how the news about Donny Counts had spread as quickly as a brush fire in the hottest part of August, but that was exactly what had happened.

“The media has done far worse.” King rolled his eyes to his partner. “But clearly, both men are guilty in the people’s eyes.”

“You know what I’m thinking?” Alvarez flicked his gaze to his partner. “I’m thinking Rose has the most to gain from Donny’s death.” Alvarez knocked the center console with his knuckles and nodded.

“You don’t believe anything she said about Joey Garcia?”

“Something tells me it’s not 100% accurate.”

King cranked the engine, put the car in gear, and set the wheels in motion. “Then I guess we’ll just have to ask him ourselves.”

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