Bones Under the Ice by Mary Ann Miller
Author:Mary Ann Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing
Published: 2023-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
âWHAT DID YOU do after we released you?â Laurent glared at the slovenly man.
Neal slouched in the folding chair, legs splayed out in front of Laurentâs desk, his gray hair smashed to one side, several black eyebrow hairs plastered on his forehead.
âNothinâ.â
âBe more specific. You threatened Bob in his office on Wednesday. You sideswiped him on Friday night and on Monday I find him dead. Thereâs a bunch of time you need to account for. Letâs start with your conversation at the bank on Wednesday.â Laurent picked up her pen.
âI didnât kill Bob.â
âBut you wanted to.â
âHell, yes.â Tillman pointed his baseball hat at her. âAsshole wouldnât loan me any money. Heâll loan money to Emmit all day long, but he wonât lift a finger to help me.â
âWhat was the loan for?â
âFarming.â
âAnything else?â
âMaybe.â
âI talked to the manager at Gray Fox Casino,â Laurent said. âHow much do you owe?â
âShit.â Neal propped his elbows on his knees and twisted his baseball hat in his hands. âDonât matter. I paid it off. You know the rest. I went and got drunk and shoved Bob and his big old Caddy into a ditch and then you locked me up.â
âI want to know what you did after we let you go.â
âTheo posted bail for me. I went home and slept and then we watched TV.â
âYou never left?â Laurent raised an eyebrow.
âYou ever heard of binge-watching. Stupid. No sense of anticipation anymore.â Neal snorted.
Laurent tipped her head. Not a point worth arguing about. No one watched the news on TV anymore. If anything happened anywhere in the world, your cell phone alerted you. Not a fan.
âDid you and Theo go out for breakfast on Saturday morning?â
âWe got food at home.â
âYou went directly from jail to your house?â
âWe got my truck out of the pound and I got gas.â
âThen what?â Laurent jotted a note.
âThis is chickenshit.â
âAre you sure? Because now Iâve got two different stories.â
âBrown bottle flu.â
âStill hungover. Great. Whatâd you watch on TV?â Laurent asked.
âI donât know. Ask Theo. I fell asleep on the couch.â
âWhat livestock do you own?â
âSold everything a few years ago to pay the mortgage. Fat lot of good that did me. Still owe the goddamn bank.â
Laurent stared into watery brown eyes. A lifetime of sadness and resignation lived there. It took alcohol to bring out the chip on Nealâs shoulder. She believed him when he said he went home and slept it off. The man refused a breathalyzer, but the smell of alcohol when he opened his mouth had been overwhelming. Dak told her that when he went downstairs to release Neal from his cell, the entire floor stank. The vomit next to Nealâs cot didnât help. âIâve got paperwork from five different banks in the quad-county area all denying your loan applications.â
âTough shit.â
âPlanning on putting anyone else in a ditch?â
Neal shook his head.
âWhy Bob?â
âEasy target. Drives that big olâ Caddy. Look, Sheriff. I got drunk and shoved him into the ditch. Thatâs it. I was nowhere near Turtle Lake, and I sure as hell donât ice fish.
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