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“Then what did you do?”
“I stayed at the wake until around ten-thirty when I drove my parents home. I was unsettled by the discussion, and decided I wanted to put a camera at the bed and breakfast, so I got one of the portable cameras from the house and took it down there about eleven-thirty.”
“You have camera footage?” Noah asked, his eyebrows shooting up.
“No.” My cheeks warmed. “Because I’m a technological idiot who didn’t realise that they wouldn’t store footage there without Wi-Fi.”
Jamie’s lips quirked into the barest of smiles. “We would like access to that to verify, and it would be easier if you’d give permission.”
“I’ll do what she says,” I said, hooking my thumb towards Melissa.
I’d never seen anyone look like they truly wanted to smack their head against a table before, but I imagined that was exactly what Noah was feeling right now.
“Eleven-thirty,” he said, regaining control of the situation. “How long were you there for?”
“I don’t know, five minutes? I just kind of set the camera on a fence post, pointed it towards the building, then left again.”
“And you didn’t see anything you wouldn’t expect?”
“No.”
“What time did you arrive home?”
“Fifteen minutes later? I don’t know,” I replied. “I didn’t know I had to keep a bloody diary.”
Noah’s nostrils flared as he looked at me.
Oh, good.
I was pissing him off.
Probably not the wisest thing to piss off a police officer while you were being questioned about a murder, but hey. I was in the shit anyway, so I might as well make it a bit fun.
“Can anyone verify this?” Jamie asked, jumping in. Presumably he saw what I saw. “Your parents?”
“I doubt it,” I said, looking at him. “I think they were asleep the whole time.”
“And you didn’t leave again after that?”
“No. Not until this morning.”
“Where did you go this morning?”
Great. Embarrassment part two.
“To the bed and breakfast to check the cameras,” I said. “It was about nine, before you ask.”
Melissa cleared her throat.
“I got there, tried to link it to the app, and realised it wouldn’t work. I went home to see tech support, also known as my dad, and he explained it to me.”
“Can anyone verify that?”
“Ah! Yes.” I lifted my chin. “Stanley McGuire came out from next door and offered his services. He’s an electrician, and he said he would come by to give the place a quick once-over for immediate dangers after he’d finished work.”
“Has he already been by?” Noah asked.
“No. He said about six.”
