Part 57 (2/2)
”Tough girl.”
”I know tai chi.” She deliberately rose up on one leg in the Crane.
”I thought that was kung fu.”
”Both are martial arts, so watch it. I'm not so mad anymore.”
”Me, either.”
She walked to him, linked her arms around his neck. ”Let's make a deal.”
”All right.”
”Thoughts and feelings on the table, whenever necessary. And if a dinosaur walks into the room, we won't ignore it.”
”Like cooking, you're going to be better at it than I am, but I'll give it a shot.”
”Good enough. We should go back in so I can watch you cook.”
”Okay. Now that we've ... set the table, there are some things I should say.”
He led the way back in. At the island, he picked up a pepper, studied it as he tried to figure out how to cut it.
”I'll demonstrate again.”
While she topped, cored, sliced, he picked up his wine. ”Corbett knows I didn't kill Lindsay.”
”What?” Her head shot up, her hand stilled on the knife. ”Did he say that to you?”
”Yeah. I've got no reason to think he's bulls.h.i.+tting me. He said he read the files, looked at everything, and he knows I didn't kill her.”
”I've just completely changed my mind about him.” She reached across to take Eli's hand for a moment. ”No wonder you weren't as mad as I was.”
”It lifted something. There's still plenty there, but it lifted some of it.”
He tried his hand at slicing as he told her what Corbett had said.
”So he thinks it's possible, too, that whoever was in the house that night was in the house when Hester fell. And also possible that person shot Duncan.”
”I think it's an angle he'll work. My lawyer would kick my a.s.s, and rightfully, if he knew how I'd talked to Corbett, what I told him. But-”
”Sometimes you have to trust.”
”I don't know about trust, but he's in the best position to find Duncan's killer, and if and when, we're going to get some answers.”
He set the green pepper aside, picked up the red. ”Meanwhile, there's someone out there who wants in this house, someone who's already attacked you, and may have hurt my grandmother. There's someone out there who's killed a man. Maybe it's the same person. Maybe it's a partner, or a compet.i.tor.”
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