41“No,” Pat agreed. “Garner started wondering if maybe another party hired the sniper to shoot Jeff.”
I should’ve been pleased. But something was off in Pat’s tone.
I moved my elbows. Wrapped my fingers around the chair arms.
“Garner set his minions asking if someone else wanted Jeff dead,” I said.
“He tasked some deputies to talk to people at the facility,” Pat confirmed.
I realized where Pat was going.
Sourly, I said, “My name popped out of their mouths.”
“Yep. Garner backtracked through the last week of Jeff’s life. Bella Hinton is a name he recognized.”
I grunted. “He’d seen it in the report on the deceased’s activities prior to death. Jeff fired me only forty-eight hours before he was shot.”
“Several staffers remembered Jeff said you were mad as hell when you left. Two also m
