Page 37 of Remind Me
“I should and she is probably gonna kill me when she wakes up alone, but something has come up that I need your help with.”
“What’s going on?”
“I need you to keep Neil there. If you can’t, tell me when he leaves. Dale has been arrested and we are on the way there now, but we need to keep him away as long as possible. He can’t get involved, not yet. We need to try and do this the right way first.”
“The right way?”
“Legally. If that doesn’t work, then Neil can have at him.”
“Okay, I will do what I can. I will get Belle to help if needed. He can’t say no to her any more than I can.”
“Thanks, Beau.” Saying goodbye, I ended the call and put my phone back in my pocket.
“He all good?”
“Yeah, he is going to try and keep him there or pull out the big guns.”
“Belle?”
“Yep!”
Felix chuckled. “Well, whatever works.” We drove the rest of the way in silence. Not long before we got to Rome, where he was being held, I got a message from Vannah saying she was awake. I called her to apologize and she understood. I was going to need to take her on a long holiday after this, before the baby came.
Entering the interrogation room, Felix and I took a seat in front of Dale.
“Dale, my name is Detective Johnson, and this is Detective James from the Harrison Police Department. We are here to ask you a few questions.”
“I’m not sure how I can help you.”
“Well, let us ask our questions and we’ll see.” Opening up his folder, he pulled out a photo of Holly and slid it across the table.
“Have you ever seen this woman before?”
“Nope, never met her before in my life.”
“Oh, so that wasn’t you in Spade nightclub, then?”
“No, I have never set foot in Harrison, let alone this club you speak of. Is that all because I have somewhere I need to be.”
“You aren’t going anywhere. We have witnesses that place you in the club that night, with Holly. We have video footage of you leaving the club with her. You were the last person to see her before she ended up in hospital and the one person, we have not been able to find since.”
“Don’t know what to tell you, it wasn’t me. This is the first time I have ever set foot in Georgia and I have to say, I am not enjoying my time here. So, unless you can prove that it was me, which you can’t, I am not saying another word until my lawyer gets here to get me out. So, you can release me, or we can sit around and wait. The call is yours.”
“You can sit here and wait than we will talk with your lawyer when he gets here.” Felix closed his folder again and stood up. Following him, we both left the room and closed the door behind us.
“So, what’s the plan now?”
“We wait. Let him stew a little bit longer.”
“Do you really think he is going to fess up?”
“No, not without a little more pressure.”
“Are you planning on bringing back the dead?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I noticed that you didn’t say that Holly was dead.”
