Another case of murder

Investigations II 📚

Chapter 19

Harry's POV

"Let me talk to him alone" I said
I was trying to convince her to let me question Jack the son of our victim cause honestly I don't know if I should let her do the talking because kids can be very annoying and I was scared it might not end well, I mean its Lee we are talking about
"Why"
"Kids can be problematic Lee"
"And you think I can't handle it? " she asks
"No, not exactly its just..... "
An emotion flew across her face
"Its just that you are scared I might flip out on an eight year old" she barked as she took her notepad and a pen and stormed into the room where jack was seated.
What have I done I wondered as I took a notepad and followed, as I walked into the room, jack was laughing at something I guess Lee said
"Oh look, here he is" Lee said
Jack leaned into her and whispered something into her ears and the two burst out laughing, I was so confused right now, I walked into the seat next to Ashley.
"He is cute tho"jack said biting into his lollipop
"But not as cute as you honey" she flirted?
Jack turned deep red, okay that's it, whatever is going on here am not appreciating it
"Hi jack, am Harry. Detective harry"
"I know, Ashley told me"
Lee winked at him and that got him blushing round two
"So jack.... Can you um... " I exhaled, this was harder than I thought, how do I question an eight year old about his dead mum, but we didn't have any other option he was the only other person close to Lena, but I still couldn't come up with a good enough question in my head
"My mum. . . . . dad told me you guys were going to help arrest who killed her" he sniffed
Lee reached out her arms to him
"Hey, who is a strong man, don't cry strong people like us don't do that, I know you don't understand a lot right now, but we need your to catch this bad guy that did this your mum okay, you told me you were a man right? "
Jack nodded enthusiastically
"Well Mr jack, I need you to be a man now, this for your mum and its the right thing to do" Lee said, her voice was so calm, so soothing even I could see streaks of courage swimming into Jacks eyes as she spoke tenderly yet firmly to him. This woman who was awesome.
"Did your mum get into any fight with anybody or anything that would make someone do such a thing? " she asked still holding his arms and looking into his eyes, it seemed like she was given him strength telepathically through her eyes
"No, not that I remember" jack sniffed
"C'mon jack think, as far back as possible " she urged
"Uhmmm, there was this one time, I was a lot smaller but I could hear mum and dad arguing, they got divorced after that, it was really huge fight"
"What were they arguing about? " she asked softly
Jack looked down at his feet as he shuffled it uncomfortably
"C'mon my big man, you can tell me, I promise" Lee whispered
"My aunty Palmer, mum was screaming something about...... I think she called it sex, I can't remember clearly, I still don't know what that means" he said innocently
Lee and shared a look
"What's sex Ashley? " he asked wide eyed
"Its uhm.... Its a Ummm" as Ashley sat stammering, I was beginning to enjoy this, she looked to me for help but I ignored it
"Its a form of dance.... For um.. Couples" she mumbled
"I don't think I would ever try the dance, it made my parents divorce, I hate sex" he said on the verge of tears
Ashley went around the table to envelope him in a hug
"Its okay you don't have to dance jack okay" she patted his back as she looked him in the eye with a huge smile
"You did well, now that lollipop I promised you" she said as she dug out a sweet from her back pocket
Jack looked at her wide eyed and a huge smile
"What do you say? "
"Thank you" he boomed
"Don't tell your dad I gave you that"
"Its a secret? "
"Yes it is" she said with a wink
"Come on now, your driver is waiting" she said helping him down the chair
"Can I come see you again Ashley? "
"Of course, anytime" she said leading him out of the room.
I was still sitting tongue tied on my chair.

Few minutes later she came back to sit next to me, she had a big wet lip mark on her cheek, jack's masterpiece I guess
"We have a suspect now, and we need to question his dad again, how can skip the fact that he sleeping with his wife's sister, men are entirely something else sometimes" she complained
"Where did you learn to do that "
"Do what? " she asked with a confused look
"What you did with jack"
She looked away briefly
"I.. I was just a few years older than him when I lost my parents" she said playing with her fingers
"I just knew how to communicate with him, experience I guess"
"You are so perfect " I said
She smiled shyly, I meant it, she was perfect, a beautiful mess?
Sometimes I look at her and I can see she is broken, but her pieces were so unique
"I wish" she said with a sad look
"C'mon Mr Brown would be here soon"
Immediately he walked in, i watched as Ashley turned strict detective mood, as he settled into his chair
"So you didn't think it was important to mention you were banging your wife's sister? " she asked
I knew stuffs like this disgusted and she was making sure she communicated it soundly to Mr Brown
"How.... "
"Yeah next time you argue about sensitive things like that make sure you are in a house without an eight year old in it, you have scarred that boy in case you don't know and for what? A few hours of pleasure that was worth you ruining your marriage? "
Mr Brown started sniffing back tears
"I love my wife"
"But still cheated on her"
"I didn't do it intentionally, I never meant to hurt Lena, it was all Palmer, that woman is crazy"
"Yeah of course blame the woman, you were just on your own and she raped you huh? "
Tears were now falling from his eyes, I knew what Lee was doing, provoking his emotions
"I was drugged, Lena had a two days shift in the hospital and the last thing I remember was sharing a drink with palmer, I wake up the next morning and our bodies are intertwined on my matrimonial bed"
He sniffed
"I was scared to tell Lena cause I knew she won't believe me, palmer was her only family and she trusted her, and again I am a man like you said, so I didn't tell her and neither did palmer at least not until she started blackmailing me, made me meet her in hotels until one day I told her I couldn't continue lying to my wife, on getting home, Lena already had a video of palmer and I, sent to her by an unknown number. Palmer disappeared after that, Lena divorced me and I lost everything, my wife, my family, my life" he exhaled
Ashley handed him a wipe from the table, an uncomfortable silence followed as we sat no one moving except occasional sniffs from Mr Brown
"Thank you for sharing this" I said
I know it must have been difficult spilling his guts to complete strangers.
But at least we now have a suspect with a motive

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