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“They arrested Tyler for murder.”
“They what?”
“They think he killed the woman who came to your old address.”
“What?” I said again. This was turning into a day of nonstop shocking developments. Jayne’s comment contained more information than maybe she realized. So we now knew who was in the picture? And she was dead? And Tyler had killed her?
I supposed what I’d planned to deal with next could wait.
“I’m on my way,” I said.
Fifty-Three
“That was Andrew,” Jayne told Detective Hardy.
“Let’s find someplace to talk,” the detective said, and steered Jayne down a hallway to another interrogation room. She directed Jayne to a chair, but before she sat down herself she asked whether there was anything she could get Jayne. Water, a coffee?
“Nothing,” Jayne said.
The detective took a seat across from her, pulled the chair in, then sighed sympathetically.
“Do I have to sign something?” Jayne asked. “Do you want me to write it all down?”
“Ms. Keeling, you—”
“I did it. There’s no way Tyler did it.”
“Ms. Keeling, the evidence against your brother is substantial. We have motive. We have opportunity. We have a witness seeing him leave the scene.”
“But you don’t understand, he just wouldn’t do it.”
Hardy offered a sympathetic smile. “I think we both know that’s not true.”
“It is true, he wouldn’t—”
“Would his aunt say the same thing?”
That stopped Jayne for a second. Her eyes danced. “You know about Clara.”
“I know about Clara. Made some calls to Providence. Know some people there. They pulled the file.” Her expression hardened. “He nearly blinded that poor woman.”
Jayne shook her head. “It wasn’t as bad as it sounds, and it doesn’t matter anyway. Because I did it.” Jayne extended her wrists, inviting Hardy to handcuff them.
Hardy ignored the gesture. “So you want to confess.”
“That’s right.”
“Don’t you want a lawyer to advise you?”
“No, I don’t need one. I don’t care about that. I just want to see justice done. And I don’t want to see an injustice done. That’s why I’m telling you this. Tell me what I have to sign so that you can release Tyler.”
“And why did you kill this woman?”
“Because … because I didn’t want her to come back and take Andrew away from me.”
“I see. Except this woman wasn’t Brie Mason.”
“I thought she was at the time. That she was using a different name.”
