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Maggie was arrested? WTF?
I don’t know the details. I’ll let you know once I have them.
You do that.
It was about five minutes later when the detective came to the door. “Mr. Blaire, come on back.”
“Are you done with Maggie?” I asked as soon as I was through the door.
“No, not yet. I’m letting her eat. Thanks for bringing her something. She actually just told me that she needed something to eat before her blood sugar crashed.”
“Yeah, it’s not pretty. Maggie has been hypoglycemic her whole life.”
“How long have you known her?”
“Since she was fifteen. We dated in high school, but broke up after I joined the Marines and prepared to deploy overseas.”
“Ah, so that’s how you two know each other so well.”
“Yeah, although that day of the robbery was the first time that I had seen her in nineteen years.”
He studied me for a moment. “Did she act like she knew those men in any way?”
“No. Maggie was just as surprised and scared as the rest of the people in the café. She didn’t act any differently. What makes you think that Maggie knew the two men?”
He watched me for a few seconds as if he was trying to decide on something. Finally, he sighed and pointed at a chair next to his desk.
“Forensics found her fingerprints on the vehicle driven by Len and Chuck.”
“What?” I barked. “That has to be wrong. Why the hell would her fingerprints be on the vehicle? Wait, where on the vehicle?”
“On the driver’s door, and inside the vehicle on the seat.”
What the hell? How was that possible? Could Maggie be involved with those people?
“I know you haven’t seen her in a while, but do you know if maybe she is in debt or needs money for something? Maybe she got involved with them because of that.”
“Are you kidding? There is no way that Maggie would do something like that. No matter what her financial state, and I have no clue what her current state is, but I know Maggie.”
“Alright, then can you think of a reasonable explanation why her fingerprints are outsideandinside the car?”
“No,” I said gruffly, “but I sure would like to learn the reason. My boss, Jake Taite, was considering hiring her to work for us. If she’s into something bad, the last thing he is going to want is her working for our company.”
Damn her. What the hell had Maggie done?
“Okay, well, if you want to watch the interview, you can view it from the back room. I’m having a hard time believing that she’s involved, but I don’t have any explanation on the prints.”
“Yeah, neither do I. I appreciate you letting me watch.”
He showed me back to the room, and Maggie was just finishing her sandwich. The cookie and juice were already gone, but I had figured they would have been first so that she got the sugar into her system.
Det. Highmore settled into the seat across from her. “Are you feeling better now?”
“Yes, thank you so much. I was about to hit the floor, and it would not have been pretty.”
I glanced under the table and saw her feet were bare. Damn, I hadn’t even noticed that when they took her away.
“Alright, Maggie, I need to ask you how you were involved with Jefferson Lenard Bunker and Chuck Wiggis.”
