Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: A reason for murder____1

After making the call, Phoebe was silent for a while which intrigued David. Her silence was not like the previous one where she was guarded because she had assumed that he was hitting on her.

This silence was tense and dark, like the clouds which covered the sky before a storm hit. David couldn’t maintain his silence fifteen minutes more into the ride. Her unhappiness caused him unhappiness too and aroused the sleeping knight in him.

Whoever or whatever had made her unhappy, he intended to slay to the very death.

“Is something bothering you?”

“No.” Phoebe answered without turning.

He couldn’t read her thoughts from the angle where he was and he sighed. It was obvious that something was bothering her but she didn’t want to admit it. It was something related to the Mayfairs and birth of a child.

He put the few things he had heard her saying together and filed them away, intending to have Polly look into the matter later. He already a starting point anyway.

Phoebe meanwhile decided that she needed to do something else to make her forget about the troubles of her birth. Now was a good time as any to watch the video which detective Shar had sent.

She got her phone, searched for it and hit play. It started with footage of detective Shark and another detective, his partner detective Johns questioning the suspect.

Detective Shark had some pictures which he thrust in front of a stoic young man with medium length black hair which was tied back exposing two small silver rings in his ears.

Shark took the lead in questioning the young man. “Blake Don, why did you kill Susie Isles?”

“Who says i killed her?” the young man blurted out.

Detective Johns banged a bundle of papers on the table. “You are so eager to confess that you haven’t even asked why we think you know Susie.”

He touched the pile of papers and smiled. “These are financial transactions which prove that she has been wiring money to you for the past five years, two million every month.”

Blake opened his mouth and detective Johns held a hand up.

Shark leaned back in the chair and put his hands behind his head with a confident look on his face. “Let me save you some time. You know me, right? I am celebrity detective Shark who closes every case i take on. I do not go in for the kill unless i have everything necessary to take my suspect down. I have all the evidence and i don’t even need your confession. What we are doing here is giving you a chance to tell your side of the story. A judge will be more lenient if you can explain why you did it.”

“Yes, maybe you were in distress.” Detective Johns suggested.

Detective Shark nodded continually, “Heat of the moment. Both of you are a young couple so maybe things just went out of hand.”

The car turned abruptly and the phone fell out of Phoebe’s hand. David had swerved to avoid hitting a dog that suddenly run into the road.

“Sorry, sorry, are you okay?”

He parked the car by the curb next to a bus stop and turned to her. Phoebe was already picking up her phone, unharmed since she was wearing her seatbelt.

“I am okay.” she answered slowly. “Are you…..” she shook her head. “Let’s keep going.”

[That was a close call, I almost gave myself away.]

Since he was bending forward, David read that thought and he smiled. She was worried about him but she didn’t want him to know. He restarted the car and decided to ask her about something else.

“Is that the interrogation of the suspect who murdered that female singer?”

Phoebe nodded.

“Mmmm.”

He raised his eyebrows at her confirmation of this fact. Did she know how weird it was that she had a video of the interrogation? This was something which was not revealed to the public. It was for the eyes of the police only and in rare cases, the judge and jury in a courtroom when a prosecutor was trying to make a case.

“May i ask why you have that?” he asked.

“I am close with the detective.” she answered. She turned her head in his direction and said lazily, “Stop asking questions.”

“Okay.” he told her. It didn’t stop him from wondering about the kind of relationship they had for him to be giving such information to her.

She went back to watching the video, forwarding all the unnecessary back and forth until Blake Don started confessing. At this point, he was angry and shouting.

“Do you know how i met her?”

“You were working as a nightclub host at a bar.” Shark answered.

Blake Don laughed maniacally. “I used to make two hundred dollars a day dancing and flirting with patrons of the club. I am not educated, have no parents and no skills. Except for my handsome face and good body, i have nothing else.

That bitch, she came to the club one night and i was one of the hosts that served her. You should have seen her spending over one million on drinks and other crap as if it was nothing.”

His voice deepened, laced with so much hatred as he continued explaining.

“I would work hard like a dog day and night and never make that kind of money in my life but there she was, throwing it away so easily. I don’t know if i was lucky or cursed, but i caught her eye and do you know what she made me do?”

Shark and Johns shook their heads.

“Strip naked.” Blake laughed. “That bitch asked me if i wanted to make one hundred thousand dollars and of course i did and i said yes so she made me take off all of my clothes, right down to my underwear in front of her friends and bandmates.

As if that was not enough, she made me dance naked, groped me, touching my…..”

Phoebe turned around and yelled, “Cover her ears.”

The Saxon spirit was the one she was shouting at to cover Connie’s ears because she could what Blake was about to say. Her shout stunned David who briefly looked back as well, wondering who she was talking to.

It was the barest of glimpses before he turned and looked at her phone, more interested in hearing the rest of the confession. Even though he didn’t know the singer personally, he knew of her.

She was all the news was talking about ever since her death. Millions of her fans around the country had travelled to Citrus city to mourn for her. However, the truth about her character was so much more sinister than they knew.

She reminded him of Ruth Mayfair, another woman who was pretentious and deceitful. It looked like Phoebe had seen through her fake facade however and that was amazing.

He shook his head and his thoughts returned to the confession of Blake Don which Phoebe had paused. What had Susie touched?