Close Her Eyes by Lisa Regan

Author:Lisa Regan [Regan, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781837902330
Published: 2023-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

TWENTY-EIGHT

Josie pulled away from Hallie’s home, acid burning in her stomach. In the passenger’s seat, Trinity scribbled like mad on her legal pad. A brief glance told Josie she was jotting down more questions. Endless questions. She’d interrogated Hallie about Vance Hadlee but all she’d managed to find out was what they already knew: his family owned a farm nearby and that he and Mathias had played football together at Bly Hollow High School with Dermot as their coach. If there had been talk of what Vance had done to Anya or anything at all about his marriage, it hadn’t reached Hallie or she hadn’t deemed it important enough to discuss.

While Trinity finished the interview, Josie texted the team. She wasn’t sure what any of it meant but it seemed important—and strange—that Vance Hadlee had come forward to exonerate Mathias Tobin in his wife’s shooting. Had Vance told the truth? Had Mathias really been at the farm to ask Dermot for a job the day that Piper was killed? Had Vance seen him? If he had, why not come forward immediately? Even as the question entered her mind, Josie knew the answer: Dermot wouldn’t allow it. Dermot controlled everything, and for whatever reason, he didn’t want Mathias to be exonerated. Josie worked through the timing in her mind. Vance had only come forward months ago. Lark had told them that Dermot had had his stroke last year. Mathias had been freed seven months earlier—also last year. Was it possible that Vance felt emboldened to go against his father’s wishes after the stroke and set Mathias free? Josie wondered if Lark knew anything about this or could shed light on it. Finding out would require getting her alone—no easy feat.

Regardless, Mathias had gone free.

Was it a coincidence that the recent murders in Denton started after Mathias was released from prison? No, it didn’t make sense. To Josie’s knowledge, Mathias would have had no way of knowing about Anya’s brand.

Josie stopped at a red light, drawn out of her thoughts by the silence in the vehicle. She glanced over at Trinity. “Are you going to be speaking to me?”

Without looking up, she said, “I’m not going to lie. It upsets me that you’ve got information that I don’t that could be relevant to what I’m working on. However, I do understand that you’ve got a job to do, the same as me. I’ve been in this business long enough to know that law enforcement can’t tell journalists everything. I respect that. I can’t promise not to look into this Keri Cryer thing in connection with Mathias, but in terms of my episode on Jana Melburn? It’s got nothing to do with it. Whatever he did or didn’t do after Jana’s death isn’t going to help me figure out what really happened to her—whether it was an accident or not. I want to keep the focus on Jana for now.”

“Thank you,” said Josie. The light changed and she began driving once more.

Trinity tapped her pen against her window.

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