Filling in the Blanks by Emma Ainsley

Author:Emma Ainsley [Ainsley, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Maggie drove back home and waited for Brett to stop by. She had resorted to taking a hot shower to force the chill out of her bones and settled in on the couch with a mug of hot tea. She’d taken the notebook from the drawer in the kitchen and began a rough sketch of her thoughts about the house remodel.

After a few minutes, she turned the page and began a different diagram. She wrote Zach Pierce’s name in the middle of the page. She drew a circle around the name and wrote Paula Winchester over to the side. She circled it and drew a line back to Zach’s name. She stared at the page for a moment, then wrote “unknown victim” at the bottom of the page with a question mark around it. Lastly, she wrote “bad guys” under Paula’s name and drew a line back to her.

“What’s this?” Brett asked her when he arrived. He picked up the notebook and took a seat next to her on the couch.

“I was just thinking through what I know about Zach and the things he said to me,” she told him. “I can’t help but wonder if Paula was here to find him for these unnamed bad people who were the reason he changed his name.”

Brett nodded his head and smoothed the hair out of her face. “You do realize that if that’s true, it’s likely that Zach did kill her to prevent her from reporting back to them, whoever they might be, which means he’s guilty.”

Maggie nodded. “I wish you could find him.” She sighed. “I don’t like the fact that he has made me the object of his attention.”

“I have a hard time with that as well, trust me,” Brett said. “You told me on the phone that you think there might be something else wrong with him. What did you mean by that?”

“Like I told Ruby earlier, I think he has a hard time connecting information together,” she said. “For example, when he talked to me about convincing you that he’s not responsible for Paula’s death, he seems to think that just because he tells me that, you should believe it and just stop altogether. It’s like he doesn’t have the ability to reason things out.”

Brett nodded. “He seems to be pretty clueless about how the justice system works.”

“Do you have any more information about the case in Kentucky?”

Brett shook his head. “Not yet,” he said. “I have a few calls out to some prosecutors I’m familiar with in the state but haven’t heard anything back from them yet.”

“I forgot to ask you about this, but how was Paula killed?”

“She was strangled, Maggie,” he said. “And it had to have been by someone who was bigger and stronger than she was.”

“What makes you say that?” Maggie asked. She almost hated to hear the answer.

“Because the marks on her neck indicated that someone was able to lift her off of her feet,” he said. “It’s very possible the assailant was in the back seat.

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