Mental State by M Todd Henderson

Author:M Todd Henderson [Henderson, M Todd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781948235334
Amazon: 1948235331
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Published: 2018-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27

Royce blew reveille at o-dark-thirty, and while Jenny finished a cup of coffee on the back porch of the inn, he got the girls out of their PJs. An hour later they boarded a plane for Pittsburgh.

He wanted to think about the case or get some more sleep on the short flight, but his girls wanted to play “Pass the Pigs!” He tried to be in the moment, this moment, with his girls rolling two small plastic pigs like dice, instead of thinking about Marcus sitting in a jail cell awaiting the latest Trial of the Century. Or, on the people who, he was increasingly convinced, were sitting somewhere toasting themselves for duping him and the entire world and pulling off whatever it was they were trying to pull off. What are they trying to pull off? Who would want to kill a law professor and pin it on one of his students? A poor kid from the inner city? It made no sense. Royce stared out the window as the plane leapt skyward, then jerked back when Jane rolled a double leaning joweler.

He stewed all day. That night, when Jenny slackened beside him in bed, he eased the covers back and slipped into khaki pants strewn on the floor. Gingerly retrieving his gun and badge, he headed for the FBI field office. Winding streets lead out of his hillside neighborhood down to the Monongahela River, and as he sped along its shoreline, littered with carcasses of Pittsburgh’s industrial past, he thought of his own transformation and the bodies he’d littered by the side of the road. He made the fifteen-minute trip in ten and parked illegally in front of the Carnegie Building, letting the siren lights hidden in the grill of his bureau car flash without sound.

By the time he keyed into his office, he was enraged. He was coming around to the idea that Jenny was right, even though Jenny wasn’t actually making an argument one way or the other. Someone had set up Marcus, then set up Royce to get him. Once the idea of a double setup was raised, it was impossible to see anything else. It was like a pointillist painting—from one perspective it was nothing but a bunch of dots, but once the image is realized, you can’t unsee it.

But what if the FBI brother gets involved? That surely would have been asked at the planning meeting. He could see them, faceless men in suits—he was sure they were all men—sitting around a large, oak table, plotting his brother’s murder. They had to set a trap if Alex’s pesky bro walked that way. The filed-off serial number was sloppily done, which allowed the FBI, but not the Chicago PD, to ID the weapon. This required pretty advanced knowledge of the capabilities of the FBI, and this thought made him seethe. Whoever was behind this was knowledgeable and clever. Suicide was the first and most likely resolution, but if the FBI brother snooped around, he’d be led to Marcus.

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