Killer Deals 16-18 by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magpie Ink

Twelve

”I’m gonna record this,” Rafe said, pulling a small device out of his jacket pocket and setting it on the table.

Catherine eyed it with a marked lack of enthusiasm, but she nodded.

“State your name for the record, please.”

“Catherine Marie McCall,” Catherine said.

Rafe launched right into it. “So when we spoke this morning, you told me you’d had a one night stand with Darrell Skinner back in high school—or when you were in high school and he had graduated.”

Catherine nodded. Rafe glanced at the recorder, and she cleared her throat. “Yes.”

“You wanna amend that?”

“First tell me what you found in the box,” Catherine said. She had put her hands in her lap, and from the way she was sitting, I was pretty sure she was winding them together like Lady McBeth trying to rub off the bloodstains.

Rafe arched a brow. “I don’t have to tell you nothing, you know.”

“I know. But I’d like to know exactly what you found before I give you my statement.”

“So as you can fit what you tell me to what I already know?”

“No,” Catherine said, but her cheeks flushed.

“For God’s sake,” I interjected, “just tell him the truth, Catherine. Nobody cares if you banged Darrell Skinner one time or twenty when you were in high school. It was sixteen years ago and he’s dead. What does it matter?”

They both looked at me. Catherine was clearly unhappy. Rafe might have looked a slight bit amused, or maybe not. “If you’re gonna be in here,” he told me, “you’re gonna have to be quiet.”

“Sorry.” It just seemed like a stupid thing to lie about. Especially now, after she’d been caught. Red-handed, so to speak.

Rafe turned his attention back to my sister. “Like I told you, I went through the contents of the box. Darrell marked every pair of underwear with a name and a date. Your name shows up nine times. Unless you brought spares, that’s a little more than once.”

“Maybe they belonged to the other Catherine,” I suggested, before I remembered that he’d told me to be quiet.

“The other Catherine spelled her name with a K,” Rafe answered.

“Really? Katie Graves spelled her name with a K?”

He nodded. “Now let me talk to your sister. You ain’t on the hot seat here. I didn’t find your underwear in the box.”

No. And wouldn’t.

But I zipped my lips, mentally, and turned my attention back to Catherine. Who heaved a sigh. “Fine. I slept with Darrell more than once.”

Nine times, per Rafe’s count. Perhaps more than nine. Yvonne had said Darrell didn’t collect her underwear. Maybe Catherine, too, had been so regular that he stopped bothering after a while.

“Any reason you didn’t just tell me that?” Rafe wanted to know.

Or me, I wanted to ask, but this time I remembered to keep my mouth shut.

“I didn’t want anyone to know,” Catherine said, which was stating the obvious. “I guess I was ashamed.”

Rafe leaned back in his chair. “I ain’t the morality police, you know. Nobody’s gonna give you a hard time for sleeping around in high school.

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.