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everyone for a while. That ‘brother’ of his isn’t actually his brother. It’s his son.”
I blinked.
“Really?” I asked, wiping my eyes.
“Yeah,” Gabe said. “Brent is his son. Born when Cromwell was in med school at twenty-five.
When he was married. And the woman he had the baby with most definitely wasn’t his wife.”
I waited for more, but he didn’t say anything more.
“That’s it?” I asked curiously.
“That’s it,” Gabe confirmed. “That was what she was able to dig up. She’s still going.”
I rubbed my tired eyes.
“Luca didn’t kill that kid,” I said finally. “It may look like he did but… he really didn’t.”
Yesterday had been so horrible.
And everything had been so coincidental.
Luca went out for a run at seven. He came back at eight-thirty wet from his exertion from the run.
He cleaned up in the shower and was just getting dressed when there was a commotion at the front
door. That was when they arrested him, allowed him to get dressed in his sweaty clothes, and left,
without caring that they’d just knocked the front door straight off the hinges.
When I’d gone to the police station, it was by an escort of two detectives who came by minutes
after Luca had been taken away. They’d driven me to the police station where they’d questioned me
for hours on what had happened. When I gave them the truth of events, they’d then informed me that
somewhere in between seven and eight in the morning, Brent Cromwell had been murdered on the
beach by a scarred man. They hadn’t been able to give the police any such information on build, hair color, or anything.
But, fucking Jessica had been on the beach with Brent at the time of the murder. She’d been
knocked out cold and had only woken long enough to see a scarred man running away.
A scarred man that she immediately linked to me—and to Luca.
After asking some questions, and getting information from my friends, they’d found my house.
After double-checking with the rental agency, and having it confirmed that a scarred man had been
with the renter of the house, they’d then gotten a warrant for Luca’s arrest.
“It was really weird,” Cora said, sounding just as confused as I’d been yesterday. “I mean, every
single person was quick to point fingers. I realize that there’s a really damning viewpoint here but…
Luca’s not the only scarred man in the world.”
