The Wife They Burned novel · Chapter 26 of 32
Chapter 26: Gala
"What did you tell her?" I said.
The marshal kept his eyes on the badge.
"The truth. I said gasoline always leaves a trace, if anybody looks for it."
"And what did she say?"
"She laughed." He swallowed. "She said, then I'd want a friend doing the looking."
Abel stopped the recording.
The detective walked up the aisle and pocketed the pill bottle.
"You're coming with me," she said to him. "Not in cuffs. In the front seat. We'll call your wife from the car."
At the chapel door he stopped beside Sarge and put his hand on the dog's head.
I picked up the white roses from the grass and threw them over the fence into the trees.
I left the gas station carnations where they were.
The marshal resigned on Monday.
On Wednesday he pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence.
"It's enough for Marshall's mother," the detective told me, in her office, with the door shut.
"The marshal, the nanny, the tape log, her own mouth on camera at seven o'clock. The prosecutor's drawing up the warrant."
"And Fallon?"
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