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“Back to the hospital,” I tell him. “My brother woke up today, so we will be up there for the next few hours.”
“I’ll stop up there with the FBI agent that has been assigned to the case,” he replies. “Right now, he is following up with the medical examiner to see if there are any preliminary results on Dr. Potaturri.”
“Okay, I think all of this is connected to Dad’s murder,” I add, anxious to get him moving in that direction. “I think Tyler found out what was going on and that’s why he was poisoned.”
“After seeing the toxicology profile, I have to agree,” he replies, throwing me a bone. “It looks to me like Potaturri was trying to scramble his brain a little and when that didn’t work, they decided to take him out.”
“Exactly! I think he had figured out who killed Dad or at least he thought he knew.” I ease in the seat a bit, thinking we were finally making headway.
“But if that’s the case, why did he accuse you?” he asks, sending it right back to where we had begun.
“I have no clue,” I tell him honestly. “I just felt better about it once I found out he was basically on roofies and pain killers.”
“That’s true!” he laughs again. “I’ll see you up at the hospital in an hour or so.”
Chapter 19
Mandy
Following an up and down conversation with the detective, Trey drops the phone between his thighs and leans into me. His eyes look as tired as mine feel, but we both know that things will probably get worse before they get better. I run my hand along the top of his, thinking about how it felt to have them on me earlier. I don’t know how long either of us can keep up these stress filled days. Thank God for the sex filled nights.
“All we have to do is tell the detective everything we know and let them handle it from here,” I tell him, wanting to take some of the burden off of us.
“Yeah, you and I are pretty smart, but we have no business being so wrapped up in this,” he replies in full agreement. “I just wanted to make sure things got moving in the right direction and away from me.”
“After we lay everything out for them, hopefully they will see it as clearly as we do,” I tell him clutching his hand in mine. “Then we can focus on our families.”
“Ray needs to come for a visit,” he suggests. “Mom could really use a night on the town.”
“What about Charles?” He has been on my mind ever since I found out he lives with Silvia.
“He is not the one for Mom. He is fifteen years older than her, but acts like he’s eighty.” He rolls his eyes and shakes his head with a subtle smile on his face. “Mom needs to have a little more fun in her life.”
“Dad does too,” I reply, knowing that he has basically been a nursemaid for years. “I just hope he still has it in him. He seemed like the wind had been taken out of his sails after Mom died.”
“He just needs to get off the farm and back in the swing of things,” Trey tries to assure me. “He’ll be fine.” Trey’s phone buzzes and lights up between his legs. “Tommy is wondering if Becky is with us,” he says, reading the message.
“Don’t tell him anything,” I say, having an instant gut reaction. “He probably doesn’t know how much she has overheard. I could tell he wasn’t happy that she was leaving with us.”
“I’m not going to even open the message. I’ll just leave him squirming.” Trey’s eyes grow dark. “Actually, I’m going to send him something fun,” he adds, picking his phone back up and clicking on the message.
“Have you ever made a mistake and then made another mistake trying to cover up the first one? Then been forced to make a third mistake to cover up the first two? Eventually, you might find that you are leaving clues all over the place.” He dictates to Siri.
He shows me the message with a smug look, waiting for my reaction.
“I don’t think that’s a very good idea,” I tell him, but he grins and presses the send button. “Okay, now I’m nervous too.”
We both sit in silence waiting for Tommy’s reply. I’m gripping his hand so tightly that when I look down, my knuckles are actually white. “I’m going to call back one of the security firms that I talked to this morning. Don’t worry,” he says, lifting my hand to his lips and giving it a kiss.
His phone buzzes and lights up again.
Tommy: You will see… I don’t make mistakes!
