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“Why did you shoot Kobe Sano, your wife’s brother?” Sunny asked.
Dennis winced. “I was interested in the life insurance policy payout.”
“You were, or your wife was?” Sunny asked for clarification.
“I…we…we both were,” he admitted.
I listened as he explained their entire plan, from start to finish. Something that’d only started brewing the moment that their meal ticket, Myen and Kobe’s father, had died.
From there, their plan was simple. Show up. Shoot him. Wait for him to die. Then leave and collect his insurance payout being the only living family he had left.
“How did you know he had an insurance policy?” Sunny asked.
“Myen took one out on him,” Dennis answered. “Before he went to prison. She said that she thought he’d die in there, and she would get to collect it. It’s just been sitting there wasting since she got it, she said. So she might as well get her money’s worth.”
Dennis didn’t seem like he was too smart.
It was easy to see that Myen manipulated him the entire time and likely only married him because she could manipulate him.
“How did y’all think you would get away with this?” Sunny asked, leaning back in his chair.
“She said that they’d never suspect her because she has no contact with him.” He grimaced. “But she messed up and got cocky when she heard that he was now happy and had moved in with his girlfriend. It was made to seem like he was enjoying his life, and she really didn’t like that. She went to see and confronted him. I told her we shouldn’t have done it after, but she insisted this was the only way. So I did it for her.”
The poor schmuck.
“Why did you do it for her?” Sunny asked, sounding exasperated. “You’re an adult, you can make your own decisions. Like not shooting someone that has never done anything to you.”
“I know.” He grimaced. “I was stupid. I love her, and I find myself doing stuff that I would never do without her urging me to do it.”
He looked hopelessly lost as if he really had never intended to go around shooting people for their life insurance payout.
“I just…my brain doesn’t work right when I’m around her.” He shrugged.
Either this guy really was that stupid and devoted to her, or there was a reason he couldn’t think when he was around her.
An idea formed in my head, and I decided that maybe I needed to figure out if my suspicions were true.
I moved away, hearing what I had needed to hear.
I found the cells easy enough and watched her for a long moment as she sat there, smug in her satisfaction, thinking that she’d gotten away with the worst crime imaginable.
“Hello,” I said to the woman.
The woman looked up.
She looked so…normal.
Yet, this normal woman had stood by while her husband shot my soon-to-be one in the face.
Myen looked at me like I’d sprouted horns and was ramming them into the bars.
“I’d like you to know that your life outside these bars no longer exists,” I said quietly. “You may not have shot your brother, and it may not have been your idea, but you were an accomplice. You still left him there to die by himself. And for that, I’ll do everything within my power to make it to where, if you’re let out of this prison, you’ll never have another good thing for as long as you live.”
I’d make it my life mission to ensure that everything she had would be taken away. Even if I had to go out of my way every morning to take a peep into her life and take every cent that she made that day.
Myen snorted. “I’ll be out of here by noon. My husband has good lawyers.”
“Your husband just sang like the canary,” I disagreed. “He’s currently in there with our sheriff and he’s talking. All about how you goaded him into acting. How your brother has a million-dollar policy that you might as well use, and how you knew he wouldn’t take care of you any other way.”
