WANTED by DELORES FOSSEN

Author:DELORES FOSSEN [FOSSEN, DELORES]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A dozen questions went through Lyla’s mind, but first and foremost—was Greg telling the truth? And if so, why was he coming clean now? Still, those were questions that might have to wait to be answered because of the last bombshell that Greg had just dropped.

“Well?” Travis snapped. “Spill it. Who’d you see? And if that lie comes out of your mouth saying it was me, you’ll regret it.”

Greg ignored the threat and looked at Wyatt. “It was Kirby.”

Wyatt started cursing, and because she wasn’t sure what he was going to do, Lyla put her hand on his arm to try to steady him.

“You didn’t see Kirby kill Webb because he didn’t do it,” Wyatt insisted.

“I didn’t see him put the knife in Webb,” Greg explained, “but I did see him leave Webb’s office that night.”

Wyatt cursed some more. “Kirby could have been there for a variety of reasons. Webb had beaten up Declan that day. He’d hit one of the girls, too.”

Both good reasons for Kirby to have paid a visit to the headmaster, but obviously he hadn’t told Wyatt about it.

“What exactly did you see?” Lyla asked Greg. And she tried to make note of not just his body language but Travis and Zeke’s. That might help her figure out what was really going on here.

“I was in the storage closet just down the hall from Webb’s office.” Greg’s voice was low and strained. He glanced at the floor. At her. Even at Wyatt and Travis. At everyone but his mentor, Zeke. “I used to go there sometimes when I wanted to be alone.”

“Go ahead,” Zeke pressed when Greg paused. “You opened this can of worms, and it’s too late to stop now. Tell them everything.”

And either Zeke was acting, or else he truly hadn’t wanted this to come to light. But she couldn’t imagine why. Because if Greg was telling the truth, this took the blame off everyone else, including Zeke, and put it on Kirby.

Greg bobbed his head but still didn’t look at Zeke. “I heard someone arguing in Webb’s office. A lot of arguing,” he corrected. “First, with Stella. She was upset about the way Webb had hit Declan.” His gaze came to Wyatt’s. “Webb slapped her.”

Because she still had hold of his arm, she felt Wyatt’s muscles turn to iron, and it took a while to get his teeth unclenched. “You should have come and told me.”

“And me,” Harlan added.

“You both would have killed him.”

Harlan’s expression took on a dangerous edge that matched Wyatt’s. “Damn right.”

Greg shook his head. “I was only sixteen, but I wasn’t stupid. I could see what was going on, and I knew it could turn deadly if the wrong people found out what Webb had done to her. Anyway, Stella and he argued for a while, and then she stormed out.”

“And Webb was alive when she left?” Lyla pressed.

“Oh, yes. He got other visitors after her.” He paused again. “Zeke came.”

Travis’s face lit up, and he made a sound to indicate this wasn’t a surprise to him.

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