His Fear Was Real by P.D. Workman

Author:P.D. Workman [Workman, P.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman

36

Who told you he was shot?”

“There were witnesses. People who heard about the shooting and saw the blood soaked into the car upholstery. Robbie never walked away from there, Tyrrell. He was dumped in a lake somewhere or showed up on some morgue table as a John Doe.”

Tyrrell put his hands over his face. “You don’t know that.”

“Did you see it happen?”

Tyrrell shook his head. “I only heard about it after. I never saw, I never knew for sure if it was true, or if he just got away, decided to leave it all behind.”

“Is that something he would do?”

“If his life was threatened…” Tyrrell started. Then he shook his head again, tears streaming down his face. “No. He wouldn’t have just left. He wouldn’t have left without saying goodbye to me. We were best friends.”

“So, you knew he was dead when you hired me to look for him.”

Tyrrell bit his lip. “I didn’t know for sure.”

“Why didn’t you tell me what you knew? It would have been a lot easier.”

“I didn’t want to bias you. I wanted you to find out what you could on your own, objectively, to see if there was any evidence either way. The cops never wanted to find him. They never looked for him. They said he was just a stupid hood and would show up on his own sooner or later. They never did any real investigating to find him. He wasn’t worth it to them.”

“Who was he meeting that night?” Zachary asked. “Who killed him?”

“I don’t know.”

Zachary didn’t believe that for a minute. Of course Tyrrell knew who Robbie had been planning to visit. They were in on the scam together. He still wasn’t convinced that Tyrrell hadn’t been there and witnessed the shooting himself. But then, why hire Zachary two decades later to find out what had happened to Robbie if he had seen it for himself?

Tyrrell had been drinking a lot at the time and maybe he had managed to convince himself that he hadn’t really seen what he had. Or he had blacked out.

“How could you not know? Who was he going to see?”

“I don’t know. We had a few marks, and I don’t know which one got to him.”

“He wouldn’t have gone to see them without some backup, would he?”

“He loved putting the squeeze on these guys. Sometimes he would go see them on his own and come crowing to me the next day about what I had missed because I went back home to my family.”

It was the first time Zachary had heard him refer to the Millers as his family. He felt a twinge of jealousy about Tyrrell growing up with a real family. One that didn’t include Zachary. Of course, Mindy and Vince were Tyrrell’s biological siblings. He hadn’t abandoned his family of birth for his adoptive parents. They were the only family that Tyrrell had been able to stay with. But up until now, Zachary had only heard Tyrrell mention his adoptive parents in a distant way.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.