The Barbarian
Page 14
"Very funny. She wouldn't drive off on her own like that, I'm telling you. I know her. Besides, she left her phone." He held it up to show the detective. "They found it in her room. I very much doubt she would go anywhere without it."
"Why not, sir?"
"Well, I wouldn't."
"Yes, but that's you, sir." The detective gave him a swift up and down glance, a faintly bemused smile passing briefly over his lips. "You're an actor, are you, sir?"
"Yes, that is my profession," he snapped.
"Isn't it nice, sir, that people can play make-believe for a profession?"
Exhaling a deep sigh, he straightened his shoulders. "Look, Detective, I know what I saw. She went over that cliff." He pointed with his cigarette. "And I know that woman. She would not go off with a stranger and she was here alone."
"But she does have impulsive tendencies, sir."
"Impulsive?" He drew on his cigarette and squinted. "How do you mean?"
"She stabbed you in the posterior, sir. Seems impulsive to me."
"Yes, well—" He stared out at the fog that was already gathering again. "She was alone. I saw her walk out there."
"But the description—if you would, sir, just one more time while I write it down."
Just like an Agatha Christie murder mystery, he mused, reminded of his ex-wife's obsession with those detective stories. Oh, she'd love this.
He glanced down at her phone as a text popped up. Readers want to know how the story ends.
Suddenly he laughed, head back, letting it shake through his body. She was gone; he knew it. They would never find anything.
And he missed her. There'd never be another like her. Or would there? She always used to say she'd lived many lives.
But then, Georgia was a crackpot. Writers were like that.
He stared again at the text on the phone.
Readers want to know how the story ends.
How did the story end? Maybe it never did.
The End
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