He stared directly into his eyes.
“Then, she got lucky because I have to live with this for the rest of my life. She’s got peace. I’m in Hell.”
Well, that said it all.
Now, didn’t it?
“Thank you for your time, Mr. Crest, and we’re sorry for what you lived through,” Gene offered.
He shrugged.
“Whatever,” he said, making himself a new martini, but this time, sticking a straw in the metal shaker.
Oh, boy.
Someone was down bad.
That was for damn sure.
Getting up, they headed out, and once back in the elevator, they began talking freely.
“We can now safely say that Ivey knew Megan, somehow. We have to figure out if she also knew Phylis.”
That seemed like the next logical step.
“We might have to go back toLux & Lineage,” Ethan admitted.
Only, Dannie warned them.
“The owner said she was closing down early today because her employee was rattled, and she wanted to go to the memorial for Ivey to support her community. It might be closed.”
Gene made a mental note to then see if anyone at the pub recalled Ivey or Phylis coming in and talking to Megan. It looked as if Ethan had been right.
They had to connect.
“So, we’ll check at the pub to see if Phylis and her husband maybe dined there,” Gene offered. “Then, we need to hit up Robert Fergus with this new information. He neglected to tell us that,” Gene admitted.
Ethan shrugged.
“I mean, I’m not shocked. If you were banging someone, like a drum, and knew there were photos laying around to prove it, you’d be shitting your pants.”
Gene agreed.
“Yeah, likely, but he could have easily pulled us aside and not talked in front of others. I would have told the investigator. When shit like this pops up, it puts you at the top of the suspect list.”
He had a point.
“Maybe he couldn’t find the photos, or he didn’t care,” Dannie said. “Is he married?”
Ethan pulled up their research.
It only took him a few seconds to find it in his notes.
“Nope.”
Dannie considered it.
“So, he was having sex and was a consenting adult. Yes, she was cheating, but he wasn’t. Plus, he’s her considerably older boss. He’s got to be in his mid-forties, and she’s just around thirty-two. That’s tricky.”
