Delicious and Suspicious by Adams Riley

Author:Adams, Riley [Adams, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-05-16T22:00:00+00:00

Where Detective Bryce had been willing to see a troubled youth in Derrick, he wasn’t nearly as understanding with middle-aged Seb. In fact, he positively glowered at him the whole time. Lulu thought a glower looked really funny coming out of Bryce’s sunny, boyish face.

Lulu had been all about calling Jed back and having him come to be Seb’s mouthpiece, but Seb would have nothing to do with it. “Mom, think about it—I didn’t have a motive anymore. When I told her to go ahead and tell everyone about the drug stuff, I really didn’t care. Why would I have killed her?” Lulu agreed that she couldn’t think of a reason, but she hoped that Detective Bryce wouldn’t have more imagination than she did.

“But you did have a motive, didn’t you?” Bryce finally asked.

Seb frowned questioningly at him.

“Your motive was to keep her quiet. To keep her from saying anything about your past to your family.”

“But,” said Seb, “I just finished telling you that I didn’t care whether she said anything or not. I told her to feel free to spill the beans.”

“And I’m supposed to believe that?” asked Detective Bryce.

“Why not? It’s the truth,” snapped Seb. Lulu hoped he wasn’t about to blow his top. She wondered if that’s what Bryce wanted to see happen. It could be a ploy to get more information out of him.

“Why didn’t you go right to your mother and fess up? It seems to me that you’d have immediately told your family about your prison time in New York. After all, you wanted to make sure they heard it from you first. Instead, the woman who is threatening to blackmail you is murdered, you disappear, and no one finds out a thing about your background until your mother pulls it out of you.”

Seb only glared at him.

“He didn’t disappear, though, Detective Bryce,” said Lulu. “He was right here all along, filthying up his house. Peek in his den if you don’t believe me.” Seb rolled his eyes at her.

Lulu continued, “If he’d killed Miss Adrian, wouldn’t he have run off and tried to build a new life somewhere else? Why would he be hanging out in Memphis? And he didn’t have to tell me today about her attempt to blackmail him and his prison time. I wasn’t going to find it out now that she’s dead. He could have just told me that Miss Adrian got his phone number because she thought he was cute.” Both Bryce and Seb looked at her blankly. “Well, she could have thought that! He’s not a bad-looking boy, just a little rundown.”

Seb broke in before the conversation turned into a litany on what he should do to spruce himself up. “Look, have you got any evidence against me? Because really, that’s what this all boils down to. And I don’t think you have it.”

Apparently, Detective Bryce didn’t think he did, either. His blue eyes looked tired for a second, before he briskly stood and moved toward Seb’s door.

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