10
Usual Suspect
“We’ve got to stop meeting like this,” I quipped feebly, but Calvin’s stony expression didn’t change.
So much for trying to lighten the mood. Not that my mood was feeling exactly light right then — it was just that it seemed as if I needed to say something to make this moment seem a little less fraught.
“I’ll need you to tell me exactly where you were and what you did last night.”
We sat in his office at the San Ramon tribal police station. In a disturbing echo of Lucien Dumond’s murder, Lilith’s body had also been found by the river, and so the crime was under tribal jurisdiction. Calvin had brought Chief Lewis along with him when he came to find me at Shady Oaks Ranch as a courtesy, nothing more.
And while I’d idly daydreamed about all the ways my path might cross
