Keeping Secrets by Penny Mickelbury

Author:Penny Mickelbury [Mickelbury, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781465817792
Amazon: B0108U0QZK
Goodreads: 2522021
Publisher: Penny Mickelbury
Published: 2015-06-22T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Tyler took off his glasses to look at Mimi across the table, as if seeing her differently would somehow minimize the horror of her words. His eyes blinked and his lips trembled and he squeezed the spoon as if trying to bend it in half. He waved away the waiter who approached to take their order, returned his glasses to his face.

As Mimi watched him she thought again how ridiculous it was for people to think about, talk about—expect—something loosely referred to as objectivity from reporters. Reporters were human beings and human beings responded the same way to shock and horror. She remembered her own reaction when Gianna told her in graphic detail how the four people died and now she watched Tyler restore his face and his emotions to some kind of normal state.

“We have to report this,” he said in a tight voice.

“We can’t,” Mimi said. “I won’t, Tyler. I gave her my word that any information she shared with me at this point would be on deep background. I won’t break my word.” Mimi was more adamant than she knew was necessary. Tyler would never expect a reporter to violate the sanctity of a source; but he was so horrified by what she had just told him that clear-eyed reason was not his initial response. Mimi understood completely, still not having recovered fully from the mind-numbing shock of learning how the four victims died. She looked more closely at Tyler, wondering how much of his reaction was due to the fact that someone he knew had died in such a monstrous manner, reminding herself that this was more than just a story for him.

“So what now,” Tyler said listlessly.

“Back to Metro GALCO. That’s my best hope for a lead.”

“Why not the Nazis!” exclaimed Tyler bitterly.

“Because the killer is someone who was able to get close to those people, Tyler, somebody they knew and or trusted. I don’t think Nazis fall into that category, much as we might wish it.”

“Do the police have any leads?” he asked, chastened.

“No,” Mimi answered flatly.

She thought again of Gianna’s face and voice and attitude as they discussed the case and believed that she had not lied when she said the police were at a dead end. She realized that of necessity Gianna hadn’t told her everything the police knew about the murders; but she also felt that Gianna was leveling with her when she claimed the police had no leads, and she knew that fact terrified her, terrified them both, and saddened them, because what was growing between them could not take full flower until the murderer was caught—whenever that would be. Gianna had adamantly refused to even discuss the proposition that they work the case together.

“We don’t do the same job, Mimi. Let’s get that clear. There’s nothing you can do to help me.”

Mimi had been stung by Gianna’s blunt dismissal of her suggestion, and by the fact that she could so quickly cease being Gianna the lover, passionate and

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