Chapter 15Russell sat on his sofa, half-lost in pointless ruminations as the police puttered around his house collecting evidence. All the stomping of boots on his wood floors, which once would have driven him insane, now seemed utterly unimportant next to the task of retrieving his beloved. A touch on his shoulder brought him to startled alertness.
“Sorry,” Jack said. “Can I sit? I have to ask you a few questions.”
“I didn't hurt Riley,” he gritted out between tightly clenched teeth. His jaws ached from the force, but he didn't relax.
“No one is suggesting you did. We all know how much you two love each other. It's been obvious from the beginning. But right now, we're trying to figure out what happened. You were the first to discover the crime. Help us reconstruct the events.”
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