Home is Where the Bark Is by Stella St Claire

Author:Stella St Claire [Claire, Stella St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-02T05:00:00+00:00

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Willow and Griffin arrived back at her house. Griffin had killed the engine, but Willow’s mind was still racing. She was sure that the clue she had stumbled upon was meaningful. She just needed to determine what that meaning was. Why would someone have a copy of a life insurance policy on their ex-husband that his mistress had taken out?

She walked through the front door and bent down to greet Telescope but kept thinking about the insurance. When dismissing Tiffany as a suspect, her dad had said that Lee Hunter had approved the insurance policy. However, it would be unlikely that Lee would have told Isla about it. Why announce to someone that they weren’t the beneficiary of your policy? Could he have taken it out as a deterrent? Maybe he was afraid of Isla becoming emotionally violent and had given her a copy because he wanted her to know that if she killed him, she wouldn’t gain anything financially.

Willow frowned. That didn’t quite make sense. Telescope licked her face, and she smiled again. She ruffled the dog’s fur.

Maybe Isla had wanted to take out her own policy on Lee and had discovered this one, making her angry enough to kill. Maybe Tiffany was trying to frame Isla by putting the life insurance policy in her house. Maybe Tiffany and Isla were somehow in cahoots with this murder.

She gave Telescope a final pat on the head and stood up to face Griffin, trying to articulate her thoughts and hoping they wouldn’t come out as a jumbled mess.

“I can’t stop thinking about it. Why would Isla have a copy of Lee’s life insurance policy? Does it fuel Isla’s motive for murder? Does this somehow point back to Tiffany? What do you think?”

“I think,” Griffin began. “I’m going to have to ask you to leave.”

Willow was confused. “What?”

“I’ve already lost a whole morning of work, and there’s a lot to do,” he said, gesturing around the house. “If you stay here, you’re going to distract me with your theories on the case. I do appreciate that you’re trying to prove I’m not a killer. But I can’t let the accusation get me behind on any more work.”

Willow held her hands up. “It sounds like you’re kicking me out of my own house.”

“You do want the construction finished on time, don’t you?” Griffin asked, meeting her glare.

Willow relented. “Fine. I’ll get out of your hair.”

She picked up her purse that she had just set down and slowly headed back to the front door. Griffin was quicker and more definitive as he opened the door for her.

Willow looked back at her dog.

“You’re in charge, Tele.”

Telescope barked and wagged his tail. She smirked at Griffin who was shaking his head, but she could tell that he was also trying not to laugh.

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