“Polly?”
She jumped as Deputy Cox suddenly bent down to look through her window, blocking her view of Jonah. He wore a suit and his hair was slicked back.
“Hey. Hi.” She forced a smile to her face. “You, uh, you attend this church?”
“I do. I don’t usually see you here though.”
She glanced at Joel. “Yeah, we’re, um, we’re considering joining.”
Cox’s brows shot up, and he glanced around her to Joel. “Really?”
Joel lifted a shoulder. “If she says so, then it must be true. She’s a terrible liar.”
She narrowed her eyes at him before looking back at Cox. “Jonah goes here?”
Cox turned his head and followed her gaze. “He does. He’s been a member for a while.”
Interesting.
When Jonah started to walk toward the parking lot, Polly straightened. “We should get going.”
Cox looked back at her. “You can come in…”
She started the engine. “Maybe next time. I think I’ve got to work up to that point.”
He frowned but stepped back. “Okay. I’ll, uh, see you later.”
“Yes, see you later.”
The deputy had just walked away when Jonah pulled out of the parking lot. Polly didn’t wait to think about what she was doing, she just started driving.
Joel cleared his throat. “Uh, Sunshine, care to clue me into what’s going on?”
“He kept his house when he married my mother. But I’ve never seen it.”
“And you suddenly want to see what it looks like?”
“Don’t you?”
“Polly, if heisa killer, that information won’t be stamped on his front porch.”
She rolled her eyes, and when Jonah pulled up in front of a house, she parked across the road just a few houses back, far enough so that hopefully he wouldn’t notice her, but close enough that she could still see him.
“Why were we at the church, Sunshine? You were surprised to see him, which makes me think you had a different lead.”
She watched as Jonah climbed from his car, then crossed the yard. “There have been rumors that Jenna was seeing someone.”
“The information we got was that she was single.”
“That’s why it’s arumor. Jenna didn’t make it public knowledge for some reason.”
“And you think it’s Jonah?”
He stepped into the house, and finally she looked at Joel. “Last night, I overheard some women saying that this mystery boyfriend was a part of the local Catholic church. And boom, Jonah’s there. Jonah, who was holding a gun in the woods near where Jenna was found. Jonah, who came home late a few times but wouldn’t tell my mother where he went.”
Joel frowned.
It didn’t take long for Jonah to step back out of his house again.
