Furever After by Sofie Kelly

Author:Sofie Kelly [Kelly, Sofie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2024-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 9

Burtis had found Eddie Nystrom.

How? And given what he’d said to me at the café, why?

I walked over to them. “Hello, Burtis,” I said. “I didn’t expect to see you here.”

“I’m sorry to stop in when you’re about to head home for the night,” he said, “but I happened to bump into Eddie here, and given everything that had happened with Will, I thought you might have a few questions, and it turned out that Eddie just happened to have some free time right now.”

Somehow I doubted Eddie was standing there completely voluntarily. Burtis didn’t like to hear no. Not that he heard it very often.

“How have you been, Eddie?” I asked.

His hands were jammed in his pockets. “Pretty good, I guess. I swear I didn’t know that Will was going to break into your library.”

“Did you know he was back in town?”

He nodded. “Yeah, well pretty much everybody knew that. He wasn’t exactly hiding or anything. I mean he did his time and all.” He darted a quick look Burtis’s way.

“Had you seen Will?”

Eddie scratched the back of his neck with one massive hand. “That kinda depends on what you mean by seen.”

Eddie could be very literal, I remembered.

“Did you talk to the man?” Burtis asked.

Eddie shook his head. “No, sir, but I was out at The Brick and I saw Will across the room talking to some guy.”

Burtis glanced at me and then turned his attention to Eddie again. “What guy?” he said.

Eddie shrugged and shifted restlessly from one foot to the other. It was obvious he would rather be anywhere other than standing here talking to me with Burtis watching him like a hawk eyeing a field mouse. “I dunno. The guy’s back was to me and he didn’t turn around so I never did see his face.”

“Do you know what they were talking about?” I asked.

“Not a clue. I was too far away but it seemed to be pretty darn serious because Will had that look on his face he used to get when something pissed him off.”

I shifted the strap of my messenger bag up higher on my shoulder. “Eddie, do you know why Will might have wanted to break into the library?”

Eddie scratched his neck again. “I hadn’t talked to Will in years. How am I supposed to know that?”

“You mean to say you haven’t heard anything?” Burtis asked.

“Well, people say things but that doesn’t mean they’re true.”

I had forgotten how frustrating it was to talk to any of the guys who had worked for Will. They were all masters at never really answering a question.

“What are people saying?” I asked.

Eddie shrugged. “It might just be a lot of loose talk. You know how people are.”

“Answer the lady’s question, Eddie,” Burtis said. There was an edge of warning in his voice.

“People were saying that Will had figured out some kind of score, some way to make a lot of money. But I don’t see how it coulda had anything to do with that painting he was supposed to be tryin’ to steal from you.

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