Empty Mile
“He motioned Marla and me inside without speaking and led us through to the deck at the back.
The sky was a high clear blue and there were small clouds in a line to the east. The archery target still stood at the end of the property but I could see no sign of the rabbit.
Jeremy Tripp sat down at a large round table and drank from a glass of sparkling water. He didn’t offer us a seat, but after standing uncertainly for a moment I took one anyway and Marla followed and held my hand under the table.... Jeremy Tripp put his glass down and scanned the sky.
“You can feel autumn in the air. I can, anyway—a slight edge. Easier to notice here in the mountains.”
“You’re Patricia Prentice’s brother.”
“Until she killed herself.”
“And you think we had something to do with it.”
“I think you had everything to do with it.”
“Because of the video.”
Jeremy Tripp frowned. “I would have denied knowledge of that if I were you. That way you could have done the whole ‘It wasn’t us, we didn’t know anything about it’ routine.MoreLess
The sky was a high clear blue and there were small clouds in a line to the east. The archery target still stood at the end of the property but I could see no sign of the rabbit.
Jeremy Tripp sat down at a large round table and drank from a glass of sparkling water. He didn’t offer us a seat, but after standing uncertainly for a moment I took one anyway and Marla followed and held my hand under the table.... Jeremy Tripp put his glass down and scanned the sky.
“You can feel autumn in the air. I can, anyway—a slight edge. Easier to notice here in the mountains.”
“You’re Patricia Prentice’s brother.”
“Until she killed herself.”
“And you think we had something to do with it.”
“I think you had everything to do with it.”
“Because of the video.”
Jeremy Tripp frowned. “I would have denied knowledge of that if I were you. That way you could have done the whole ‘It wasn’t us, we didn’t know anything about it’ routine.MoreLess
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