Bury! The Lead by Shelley Dawn Siddall

Author:Shelley Dawn Siddall [Siddall, Shelley Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“You probably want an answer,” Crystal said matching Scott’s conversational tone. “Well, back up boys, let me open this door and get out of here.”

Surprisingly, both men backed up and allowed Crystal to climb out of the car.

“I was looking for …” Crystal opened the passenger door on the driver’s side and started rooting around under the seat. “This!” she said triumphantly as she held up an empty bottle of vodka.

“So it’s a bottle of vodka,” Scott said, crossing his arms.

Crystal smirked. “An empty bottle of vodka. In other words, not a new medication that someone can have a bad reaction to.”

Scott took the bottle and motioned for Crystal to move away from the vehicle. In the meantime, Barry was looking back and forth at Scott and Crystal. He crossed his arms as well.

“I’m not sure what’s going on, but I might as well enjoy the show,” he said.

“I’ll tell you what’s going on; nosy-parker here is way over her head.” He wanted to stare Crystal down, but the fact that he had to look up at her ruined his theatrics. Instead, he decided to humiliate her.

“Look Crystal, you have no idea what the bigger story at play is. Do you really want to destroy the reputation of someone who does a lot of good in the community? I think you are the lowest of the low in trying to use a woman’s poor nerves and expand this accident into something nefarious. The woman is in a rest home and you want to add to her grief?”

Part of Crystal’s brain latched onto Scott’s expression that started ‘destroy the reputation of someone’ and another part of her brain was starting a slow burn at being embarrassed in front of Barry the mechanic.

“I am not causing anyone grief; I am trying to determine who ran down a six year old girl!” she said heatedly.

Barry blanched. “This car was involved in that hit and run over on Birch Avenue?” He turned to Scott. “You told me you hit a dog.”

Crystal frowned. Why did Barry think Scott owned the car? Well, she had the information she wanted; she had the name of the owner and likely the driver of the car. She needed to go home and check something in the original story again.

“Thanks for the tour,” she said as she waved to Barry.

Scott grabbed the back of her shirt. “Wait a minute there new girl. I am ordering to stop your snooping or your little job at the newspaper will be over. My Boss is the owner of the paper not the City Editor so I would suggest that you…”

“Bug off!” Crystal yelled as she twisted out of his grasp. “How rude are you? I would suggest you look at what you just did. You grabbed my shirt to try to stop me from investigating. Are you really that threatened by me?” She turned and continued walking her bike out of the garage.

“That’s it,” she said as she started pedalling, “I’m going home and figuring this out.

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