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“Who knows?” Lou said, but there was an I told you so glinting there in his eyes.
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Fiona
“He knows,” I whimpered. “Oh God, he knows…”
“No he doesn’t,” Eddie said forcefully, trying to calm me down. “He might know you had somebody in here, but he has no idea it was me. And he has no idea what I do.”
“You sure about that?”
“Absolutely. I’ve been here an hour; they would have jumped me sooner if they suspected.”
“But they suspect me, or they wouldn’t have sent somebody!”
“Look, here’s what you’re going to do. Put your gun in your purse. Go to the diner up the road and order breakfast. Act calm the entire time. Keep the receipt so you have an alibi. Make sure you do something memorable so the waitress remembers you.”
“If you’re talking about Charlie’s, I worked there for a couple of days.”
“Even better.”
“Why do I need an alibi?”
“So you can prove you were somewhere else when this happened.”
I understood what he was getting at. “Jack…”
“You call him all freaked out when you get back here, say your room got turned over and it’s all fucked up. I’ll do the turning over, you just go.”
“What if Lou tells him? What if Jack doesn’t believe me?”
“You’re an actress, right? So act. Make him believe.”
Suddenly the phone rang again.
Lou.
Eddie silenced the ringtone and let it go to voicemail.
This was too much.
I turned around and pulled at my hair. “I need to get out of here…”
“Fiona, I need you to stay on this case.”
I turned around, furious. “What if I leave? Are you going to charge me with all that shit you threatened me with?”
He breathed out heavily, and for the first time, he looked halfway compassionate. “…no. I’ll understand if you bolt, and I won’t fuck with you. But you came here and put your life in jeopardy to find out what happened to your cousin.” He held up the phone, which was now showing a voicemail from Lou. “Seems like you’re that much closer now.”
“That much closer to getting killed.”
He swept his arm towards the door. “So leave. I won’t stop you.”
I gritted my teeth. “You’re not going to help me if I do that, though, are you.”
“No.”
“Then I’ll never know what happened to my cousin.”
