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“I think you need to tell Sully. What if Trevor did something like this before? Who knows how many other people Trevor certified that weren’t qualified to dive in open water,” I said.
Annisa raised a perfectly plucked and shaped eyebrow at me. She seemed incensed at the idea that she wasn’t the only one Trevor bent the rules for.
“I guess you have a point,” she admitted. “Is he still here?”
I gestured at the empty parking lot and shook my head.
“You’ll have to call him, and you probably want to tell the police what you told us,” Aiden said.
Annisa jerked her head back and stood stiffly. She looked down at her feet and whispered, “I don’t want to do that.” She started to fiddle with the end of one of her braids.
His voice was calm but forceful. “The police need to know everything about Trevor to find a motive for his murder. Then, he added in a pleading tone, “Don’t you want Trevor’s killer to be found?”
Aiden’s arguments were convincing because she stopped playing with her hair and said, “I guess.”
Patting her on the shoulder, he said, “We can meet you at the precinct, and we’ll be there when you talk to the police.”
“Do I need to do this right now?” Annisa gulped.
“Yes!” I gave her a pointed stare.
Nodding his head in agreement, Aiden said, “It’ll be better if you told them before the police discover the information on their own.”
“Fine,” Annisa said, abruptly ending our conversation.
“Aren’t you going to change?” I called out when she started to walk toward her car.
She looked down, patting her wetsuit when she realized she hadn’t changed. Then, she shrugged and muttered, “I just want to get this over with.” She clicked on the key fob, and the car’s headlights flashed.
“But you can’t go in like that.” I said, waving my hand at her bright pink wetsuit.
“It’s warm, and since I didn’t go in the water, it’s clean. I’m sure it’ll only take me a few minutes to talk to Officer Shin, and then I can go home.” Although she didn’t want to go to the police station, Annisa looked confident about her ability to handle the situation.
“If you’re sure,” I replied, but I doubted it would be so short. The last time I went into a police station was in Cozumel, and it took almost the entire morning.
I followed Annisa’s movements and thought how fortunate we were that we never went diving. If something had happened to her while we were underwater, we could have ended up with two dead bodies today.
Chapter Nine
Iwatched Annisa’s car peel out of the lot and chuckled in amazement because she didn’t wait to see if we were following her. And she was so anxious to distance herself from what happened that she threw her gear into her trunk before she left.
Her attitude toward diving was strange, and it made me wonder why she was here in the first place.
“It’s unbelievable that Trevor passed Annisa even though she didn’t complete her dives,” I said when Aiden came out of the bathroom. We had changed clothes, and we were making our way back to his SUV. Unlike Annisa, I had no plans to walk into the police station looking like a penguin.
Aiden shook his head. “I know. It’s?—”
“Unheard of? Unethical? Completely dangerous?” I finished his thought.
“Yes, to all of the above,” he said, opening the passenger door.
I slid into his meticulously clean car while he loaded our equipment in the trunk.
When Aiden got in the driver’s side, I asked, “Don’t you think it was weird that Sully didn’t know much about Trevor?”
“It depends on how long he knew him.” He lifted a corner of his upper lip. “Honestly, unless Sully and Trevor have worked closely together for a while, it’s not uncommon for guys to not know much about each other. I mean, there’s more than a few people at the law firm that I only know in passing.”
“Huh.” I had to concede that Aiden made a good point, but it seemed odd that for a dive shop that only employed a few people, the owner didn’t ask about his instructor’s personal life.
