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“Okay.” Jon glanced back toward Kylie and his dad, but they were working on getting a bass to shore. “What’s up?”
“Olivia has been arrested for murder.”
“What? No, that can’t be.”
Olivia Thompson was the last person Jon would have guessed would do something like that. In her fifties with a husband and a gaggle of grandchildren, she was a patient favorite. She’d been the one who first invited him to be part of the practice.
“She was caught on video giving a bone cancer patient a fatal injection. When she was arrested, she claimed she wanted to spare him pain.”
Jon sank onto a tree stump. “I can’t wrap my head around it.”
“The news will be all over the papers tomorrow. I’m not sure the practice will survive. The other two partners are already distancing themselves, and the police are all over the place combing through records. Brace yourself, Jon. The police may show up with questions for you as well. You worked closely with Olivia.”
Norman didn’t have to say what this meant. The funds Jon had invested in the practice were likely gone. This kind of scandal would rock the community. No one would trust their practice. They would all be guilty by association.
He thanked Norman for the call and hung up. If the practice up in Houghton offered him a spot, he might have to turn it down.
***
Annie buckled her seat belt and scrolled through her phone as Mason drove his SUV out the gates of the property. No missedcalls, so at least Jon wasn’t having too much trouble with Kylie. She dropped it back onto the console. “What did you make of Fraser?” she asked Mason.
“He’s lying about something. The question is what.”
“I think he was definitely lying about her having no friends. He glanced away when he said it. And there was a woman at an upstairs window watching him talk to us.”
“We’ll see if he filed a missing person’s report or if there’s any record of a domestic violence incident.”
“What if we wait until he leaves and go back? Maybe we can find out more from whoever that woman was.”
“I didn’t see her, but I’m game.” He pulled his SUV into a parking place along the tree-lined street and glanced in the rearview mirror. “There he goes now.”
She twisted in her seat and saw his sports car speeding away in the opposite direction. “I thought he might hang around and warn whoever was there.”
Mason pulled onto the street and did a U-turn. “He still might have called or texted with a warning. She might not talk to us.”
“Maybe.” Annie wasn’t ready to give up yet. She smelled something very off about Brandon Fraser. “We could talk to neighbors too. See if they know anything.”
“Good idea.” He returned to the Fraser mansion, but the gate was locked this time. They’d evidently arrived after Brandon had opened it for his departure.
Mason ran his window down and pressed the buzzer. There was no answer at first, so he pressed it again.
A woman’s voice came over the speaker. “Who is it?”
“Sheriff Mason Kaleva. We wanted to ask some questions about Michelle Fraser.”
“You already talked to my brother, and he’ll kill me if I speak to you.”
Annie exchanged a glance with Mason before leaning over to answer in the speaker. “Were you watching from upstairs? We won’t tell him you spoke to us.”
“I can’t take the chance. Go talk to some neighbors. They might tell you something.”
“Which neighbor?” Mason asked.
Only silence followed, and even though he pressed the button again, the woman didn’t answer. “Guess that’s all we’re getting. Any idea which neighbor to go to first?”
“The closest place is down the street on the corner,” Annie said.
Mason nodded and turned around to go back. She pointed out the house as they approached. It wasn’t as large as the mining magnate’s place, but it was plenty grand enough for the neighborhood.
