Legacy by Helen Hardt

Author:Helen Hardt [HARDT, HELEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642632231
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

Chapter Thirty-One

Brad

I sat with my father, drinking really bad coffee, in the ICU waiting room.

Yeah, Murph had been transferred to ICU. A blood test showed heroin in his system—heroin!—and even after the doctors had pumped everything out of his stomach, he still hadn’t come to.

Murph’s parents sat at the other end of the waiting room. I’d called them when I got to the hospital. They, of course, were blaming me, and though I hadn’t drugged him, I couldn’t fault their logic.

He’d been at my wedding.

Someone at my wedding had drugged my best man.

At this point, the only person I knew for sure was innocent was Daphne.

My father, sitting beside me, had been a rock, had taken my best friend to the ER when I had other responsibilities, namely to my wife and our guests. Did I think he was behind this? No, I didn’t, but I couldn’t unsee him pulling a gun on an innocent psychiatrist who’d already done him a massive favor.

George Steel was capable of so much more than I ever gave him credit for—and not in a good way.

Why should I be so surprised? This was a man who’d knocked his wife around simply because she couldn’t give him more children.

He seemed to regret those actions now.

Did he regret threatening Dr. Pelletier?

Not that I could see.

Still, what would he have to gain by drugging my best friend?

Then there were Theo and Tom. They both knew Murph, had partied with Murph. As far as I knew, they liked Murph. At least they’d never let on they didn’t.

Of course, Larry had all but admitted the two of them were getting into the drug business. Pot, though. Marijuana was a long way from heroin. How would they even know how to get heroin?

My mother… She liked Murph. Would she do such a thing? No.

Daphne’s parents. Of course not. Lucy was recovering from an overdose herself, and neither of them had any sort of motive.

Patty and Ennis? No way.

The few other guests were friends of my parents from Snow Creek. Good people who had no reason to drug a person they didn’t even know.

That left one person.

Larry.

Larry, who had tried to tell me something before we got interrupted in my bedroom.

Larry, who was technically family now that I’d married Daphne, his half sister.

Family wouldn’t do that.

Besides, of the three Future Lawmakers, Larry was the one who actually had a semblance of a conscience. Not a whole conscience, mind you, but at least the semblance of one.

He had something to tell me, and I needed to find out what it was.

Could I call him now? It was the middle of the night. He probably wouldn’t answer. He might not even be home. He could be staying at a hotel.

Damn!

Larry had nothing against Murph that I knew of, but he knew something—something about Theo and Tom.

I had the feeling he wanted out.

And for some reason, he didn’t think he could get out.

Who would want to hurt—

Hurting Murph would hurt me, and the only person who wanted to hurt me was…

But she was locked up and medicated.

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