CHAPTER NINE
As Carly watched the director closely, he finally took a long slow breath and spoke.
“I didn’t take it gracefully,” Coddington said, “what she’d done to me, I mean. I may have … said a few things that maybe I shouldn’t have said.”
Carly remained silent. She saw Lyle gesture to Detective Brown to do the same.
“I may have threatened her,” Coddington admitted.
“Really?” Carly said, c*****g an eyebrow. “I’d like to hear your exact words.”
Coddington tried to hold her gaze without blinking, but then he looked abruptly away.
I’ve called his bluff, Carly saw with satisfaction.
She was pretty sure he’d guessed at least part of the truth—that someone had witnessed his altercation with Gentry and had already told her about it. He realized that lying would get him in deeper troub
