Gene stood.
“I’m going to assume that you know the two law officials that died, correct?”
She was honest.
“They both came intoDark Spiritsand spoke to my staff. I wasn’t there those days. I was with Rodrigo. We were in Colorado skiing.”
Gene stared at her.
“I don’t like the sun,” she said. “It’s difficult to look this pale when you live on an island.”
Whatever she said.
Gene wasn’t questioning it, but he was warning them as to what was to come.
“We’re going to dig into this, and ask questions. If I find that you’re lying, or behind this, I’m going to get mean. There’s no doubt about that.”
Neither looked worried.
“Tonight, we’re coming byDark Spirits, and we’re going to ask questions of your staff. If you’re there, you won’t warn them. Got it?”
She agreed.
“I promise I won’t. We’ll be there and accessible in case you need to talk to us. I give you my word that we’re not involved in this. Someone is really gunning for both of us.”
Yeah, said every person they’d suspected of a crime. What she said didn’t matter.
It was what they could find out.
Gene pointed to a notepad.
“Give me the address in case I need to follow up, or arrest you. For now, Ms. Barada, you’re in the clear. Before this little abduction scheme of Rodrigo’s, we didn’t believe you were behind it.”
She looked surprised.
“Really?”
He nodded.
“My profiler,” he said, pointing at Ethan, “said this is too in our faces blatant. It’s too directed at you. The broken bonesare too over the top and pointed at a mob man, as it looks like someone’s interrogating people to see what they know. You know too much as it is,” Gene admitted.
And it was true.
The man definitely was aware of what was going on around the island.
They also believed if he was killing, no one would be any the wiser.
“We want you to stay out of it, and if you hear anyone is up in this, contact us,” he said, sliding his business card to Rodrigo. “If you want her to stay in the clear, don’t put your nose in it.”
The man got it.
“I’ll owe you one if you help her.”
He stopped that then and there.
“Hell, no. I’d like to keep my job, and being owed one by a mob man is the opposite of that. This is what we do. If she’s clean, she’s clean. That’s the bottom line.”
It was clear Rodrigo was grateful.
