“It wasn’t premeditated, if—”
“You don’t know what it was, or what they’ll pin on you. You had motive and opportunity, that’s all the prosecution need. They already have the murder weapon and the body. This is an open and shut case. You’re a felon, how much time will they spend listening to your stories?”
Having committed murder, Gary would have an over-inflated sense of his own importance, he probably felt invincible right about now. But if he got away, if he left the country tomorrow, he’d be long gone before Blaser tried to pin the murder on the rightful perpetrator. The cops wanted someone behind bars. He would be the only one left behind to take responsibility.
“I’ll have to think about it.”
His body was too tired and his mind too fried to make sense of what was going on. Other th
