18
All’s Well
It turned out that the reason why Calvin hadn’t arrested Boden Marsh for Emily Porter’s murder as well was because she wasn’t actually dead.
After Boden had been carted away by a couple of San Ramon tribal police, headed for his arraignment, Calvin stayed behind at my apartment to fill me in.
“I got your text and went over to Emily’s house right away,” he explained. “When there wasn’t an answer, I went ahead and broke in so I could search the place. I found her on the floor in the master bedroom, tied up and barely breathing.”
“What did he do to her?” I asked, not sure if I really wanted to hear the answer.
“Strangled her and left her for dead,” Calvin said. His mouth tightened in anger before he went on, “But she’s a tough girl, and she hung on. If I’d been even a few
