“I keep it so I can remind myself how much I hate her for breaking me.”
Dannie picked it up, and it was a gorgeous ring. It had a two-carat stone and side stones.
“I’m sorry,” Gene admitted.
The man shrugged.
“I guess I wasn’t enough for her. I gave her all of me, and she held that little piece back. Lesson learned.”
Gene had to get this back in control.
“When was the last time you saw her?” he asked, thinking about the condoms.
Yeah, it wouldn’t be this dude she was still having sex with, but instead, the blond.
“A month ago, when she broke up with me,” he admitted.
Then, he pulled a box from the small pantry not far from where they were. In it, there was a box of pictures, some sweaters, and female toiletries that he’d clearly pulled from his bathroom.
“I meant to throw this out, but I just…”
They got it.
Heartbreak sucked.
“And you’ve not been to her home since?” Gene asked, making sure.
Randal laughed.
And laughed.
And laughed.
“I’d rather cut off my own arm and slap myself with it than go there. The last time I showed up, it was a Wednesday. She had a teacher-in-service day, and I thought to surprise her. I went and got flowers and then showed up there.HEwas there.”
Okay, well, maybe this might help them.
Gene let him talk.
“I had a key, so I went to the door, which wasn’t locked. When I got inside, I heard them. I heard the love of my life being fucked. When I went to her bedroom, he was in her. He was in my woman!”
Tears filled his eyes.
Oh, boy.
That hurt was raw, and while it might be a good reason to kill her, they needed to figure out if he knew the other two women. They were both taken a block from where he worked.
“Who was it?”
His lower lip quivered.
“Her boss. She was cheating on me with the principal of her school.”
Holy.
Shit.
They’d talked to Robert Fergus, and heNEVERlet on that he was in a relationship with the woman.
