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Fair question. I turn up the volume and lean back in my chair, pretty damn impressed by her investigative skills. I might need to take her with me to an interrogation and just let her do her thing.
Some day.
Eventually.
When I’m not so on edge that I’m ready to shoot the wind for touching her wrong.
“I think you know.”
Greg chuckles.“Enjoying the free champagne a little too much, huh?”
“Michael Little was poisoned.”
There’s a long silence. I don’t even notice I’m holding my breath until my lungs start to burn. And then: “Michael Little was shot.”
“He was. But that’s not what killed him.”
“And you know this how?”
“I don’t. You just told me.”
Get him, Clara!I don’t try to hold back the smile that spreads on my face at the sound of her using his own words against him. Goddamn, she’s amazing.
“I didn’t…”Another long, heavy silence. Then Greg lets out a heavy sigh.“Shit. I didn’t think it would ever get out.”
I freeze.
And then I rewind the recording and hit the play button again.
“I didn’t think it would ever get out.”
Pause. Rewind. Play.
“I didn’t think it would ever get out.”
Blyat’.
This is the confession she was talking about. The one I swore did not exist.
I let the recording continue playing, telling myself to not be frustrated with the awkward silence and subtle rustling because obviously there’s more. Obviously, Clara must have been just as floored as I am right now.
“I didn’t poison him. I swear it, Clar-bear. I want—no, I need you to know that. I know how much he meant to you.”
Bull-fucking-shit.
“But you came home early that day. And then he came over for coffee…”
“Yeah. To offme.”
I suck in a breath the same time I hear Clara audibly gasp.
…The fuck?
“Yup. You heard me. Mikey figured out I was on the take, which he was going to report me for anyway… But then he found out about your mother and I having some marital problems and I guess he decided killing me was better.”
“‘Marital problems.’”Clara snorts a laugh. Her voice drips with sarcasm and practically frames the phrase with air quotes.“You mean he found out you were beating her.”
“Clara—”
