Main Suspect (A Bryson Wilde Thriller) by Hansen Jim Michael & Jagger R.J

Author:Hansen, Jim Michael & Jagger, R.J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thriller Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2024-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

22

August 8

Thursday Afternoon

T he bar was dark, the whiskey was strong and Jori-Rey was every damn bit as intoxicating as Sudden Dance. Wilde found his thoughts turning nasty. Images popped into his head, rude images of driving the woman back to his place and taking her deep and hard and all-consuming and not stopping until he’d turned her into a sweaty, lust-soaked animal with nothing left of her existence except the fire in her veins and the thrashing of her body.

“Wilde, you there?”

The image snapped off with all the subtleness of an 8mm tape splitting in two and slapping over and over as the reel spun.

He tapped ashes into the tray.

“I need you to do me a favor,” he said. “There’s a detective in town by the name of Johnnie Fingers. He’s convinced himself that I killed Sudden Dance. He’s going to take me down as hard as he can.”

“If you didn’t kill her you don’t have anything to worry about.”

Wilde cocked his head.

“That’s not the way it works,” he said. “Fingers will make stuff up if he has to. It’s all in the name of justice because he knows in his heart I’m the killer. What I need you to do is go down to Fingers’ office with me and pretend you’re Sudden Dance. We’ll show him you’re still alive. That will put an end to it.”

Jori-Rey leaned back.

“No.”

“No?”

“No, I can’t,” she said. “I’d like to but I can’t.”

“I don’t get it—”

“Play it out,” she said. “We trick Fingers into thinking that Sudden Dance never really got killed. What happens next is that word to that effect will get out on the street and then it will eventually make its way to Rojo. Now, when Sudden Dance doesn’t return to him—which she won’t because she’s dead and I can’t pretend to be her—he’ll have only once conclusion to reach, namely that she left him. As soon as that fire enters his brain he’ll kill Maria. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

He did.

He did indeed.

“In fact, even being here with you in public is dangerous,” she said. “I’m sorry Wilde. You seem like a nice guy but I can’t put Maria’s life on the line, I just can’t.”

“No, that’s okay, I get it. I’d do the same thing. Don’t feel bad about it.”

She leaned in and put her hand on his.

“You’re a private investigator,” she said. “Maybe you can figure out where Maria is. If we can get her to a safe place, then we’ll be in a position to go to Fingers like you want.”

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