Unnatural Murder (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 8) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

She leaned back in her chair and watched me for a moment till I met her eye.

“Maybe,” she said, “Maybe it’s simpler than that.”

“What do you mean?”

“Maybe we are complicating things unnecessarily. Sometimes you can do that. Not you, necessarily, but one. One can do that. Unnecessarily.”

“Complicate things.” I smiled.

“Yeah.”

“OK, so how do we uncomplicate them?”

Emilio came over with our beers. When he’d left, Dehan took a pull, settled the glass carefully on the table, and licked the foam from her top lip.

“Sebastian and Luis finish work and go back to Lynda Graham’s house. They start partying, they get drunk, yadda yadda. At some point Jack turns up. Maybe he spoils the vibe, maybe he doesn’t, whatever, come one o’clock the boys leave. They still feel like partying so they decide to go to Angela’s place. Maybe they know she’s alone. Either way, they get a taxi and get there in the small hours. Nobody is stealing from the hospital, nobody is encroaching on anybody’s turf. Just two nice med students letting off steam with an old friend.”

I nodded. “OK, so far I like it.”

She nodded back at me. “I like Angela as a mother hen to her almost-brothers. I can believe that. It sounds right and it fits with what I know of her, her mom and, hey! her culture. That’s what a lot of nice Latina girls are like: mother hen.”

“I believe you, stay on task.”

“I am. So she fusses over them, gives them coffee, et cetera. Just like she told it. Cut. Meanwhile, down at the ranch, two weeks earlier, Moses, somehow, in some way we do not yet know, has upset Mr. X.” She leaned forward, spread her hands like she was doing a magic trick. “We don’t know yet who Mr. X is.”

“That’s why you called him Mr. X.”

“Right. But he is big, he is bad, and he is dangerous to know. Moses knows him and somehow he has fallen foul of him. He turns up two weeks ago to settle whatever score it is they have. Moses throws him down the stairs. He shoots through the door, hits Moses in the leg. Moses leaves town. Mr. X doesn’t know that. And what happens that night is pure, simple, bad luck. The boys turn up. She makes them coffee. They persuade her to let them use the car. Meanwhile, Mr. X turns up outside. He arrives maybe seconds before they come back from the store. He is planning to break in and kill Moses, but to his surprise he sees the Toyota arrive and park. As you demonstrated yourself that morning, the visibility was shit. He can’t see through the windshield, but he has no reason to believe that there is anybody else but Moses and Angela in the car. He has no beef with Angela. So he gets out of his vehicle, he walks over, empties his magazine through the window. Exactly as you said, he does not go and finish Angela because he does not care about her.

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