Walsh paled. “No, there’s no need for that, ma’am. They’re just routine questions. What did Ms. Boots say when you went to her with your information?”
“She told me she had known already that he thought he was a werewolf. She told me that he fell in with the wrong crowd. She was very sad about it all. But she confirmed that someone picked Brent up that night. So my information was useless, like the cops said. Brent’s mother already knew that someone came for him that night.”
Darlene hoped her story sounded convincing. Most of the details were true. It was just the circumstances of the details that were fudged a little.
Walsh looked down at his notepad. “What about Roman’s Tavern? Witnesses put you there last week. Your boyfriend got into a fight with Roman. No cops were called, and the t
