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"It appears you paid the bill," he asked.
"Detective, the man was sitting in what used to be my office. I really didn't feel like accepting his charity," Stephanie responded stiffly.
"You don't sound like much of a fan," the detective observed.
"I think it is safer to say I hated him," Stephanie corrected.
"May I ask where you were a week ago last Sunday?"
"I was in Chicago until late then took the Red Eye. My flight landed around 4 a.m. I was home around seven Monday morning," Stephanie recited after a trained moment of hesitation. After all Nathan had made sure she was on planeload of people when Peter died.
"Can you give me the names of anyone who may have seen you?" he asked.
"My assistant can give you the names of the nine other people who were at the training conference with me from this office if that will help. We all flew back together. I suppose you can check with the airlines as well."
"That will be great," he admitted.
"I'll have my person e-mail you the names and my flight number. This is really such a tragedy. It seems so senseless; no matter how much we didn't get along, Peter was a decent human being at his core. I hope he didn't get caught up in something bad."
"We are still looking into the matter," he responded. "I'll let you know if I need anything else."
Five minutes later Detective Mullins had his information from Stephanie. Thirty minutes after that he scratched Ms. Lamborne off his list of possible suspects. She's been a long-shot anyway, nothing more than a stray contact before Peter Bartowski met his untimely demise.
- COMMENTS
Aurimazalmost 9 years agoPlease, do not leave your stories unfinished, even if it's a grim one. I'm reading your writtings all week and still did not found a finished one. It really annoys me.
GandolfTheWiseover 9 years agoIt is easy to start a story, and dream of many directions it can take; but to stick to it until you have a good ending is much more difficult. I hope you return to it someday, and after refreshing everything in your memories, pick up the story where you left off until you can come to a good stopping point.
GandolfTheWise
fanfareover 10 years agoTo answer Anons. question. I think Kikki was trying to gross out Stephanie to convince the executive slut to leave her alone with Nathan. Whom Kikki is having a major crush on. Only to discover the older woman was a lot more experienced at handling passes from a jumped-up IT nerd. Now the question is can Stephanie hold on to her Dominant position over Kikki supposed submissiveness? While Nathan smoothly plays them both for his game?
To answer RWs question. Stephanie is too arrogant to believe that she can be out-maneuvered by Nathan or Kikki. If Stephanie was actually arrested and charged with capital crimes. Then, maybe, if she was offered States Evidence and Witness Protection she might testify against them. But that is one heck of a lot of maybes to get around.
After all, technically, Stephanie has not physically harmed anyone. And she wasn't present at any but the first killings/street mugging, where she was also one of the victims. So cutting a deal to bring Nathan and or Kikki to imprisonment if not justice, is not unthinkable.
Adolf Hitler never, ever signed any orders to exterminate the Jews. While Joseph Stalin got quite a kick, a chuckle if you will, perusing and signing off on the lists of death warrants.
Kikki is obviously learning how to develop and use her psychopath?/sociopath? urges to become a full fledged serial killer. She sure as hell wouldn't give up Nathan who she is 'mad'ly in love with. And giving up Stephanie to the authorities would spoil the kicking-ass fun times Kikki is so enjoying.
As for Nathan he is in full-fledged Paleolithic survival mode and the devil take the hindmost. If he felt threatened, he would react with extreme violence to remove said threat. Without hesitation, mercy or regrets. As long as each woman, both women are useful for his goals, he will permit them to live. And only so long!
Perhaps if Kikki could mature past her childish obsessions and learn to be a stone-cold killer like Nathan. Then she might try remove him as an inconvenient witness but I would bet my money on Nathan realizing her intent and liquidating her first.
