“I’ll call you in a little while and see where the detectives get with this information.”
“Okay. Later.”
Lena looked at Bryant.
“Let the detectives work the case and question them. If Sage doesn’t come forward after, then if these assholes are behind bars, we’ll go look for her together.”
“Really? You’d do that with me?” she asked with a smile.
“Yes,” he told her, and she crawled closer to him then straddled his thighs.
Lena placed her hands on his shoulders and smiled at him.
“I love you, soldier boy.”
“I love you, too, Detroit.” He kissed her and she hoped that she could feel this safe forever.
* * * *
“I don’t know anything about some chick you found dead,” Troy stated as Detective Reynolds questioned him in the interrogation room.
“I have a witness that says otherwise.”
“They’re lying,” Troy stated, and Detective Reynolds decided to use Troy to catch Triumph, which was who he really wanted to catch.
“That’s not what Triumph told us. We questioned him this morning, and he said that you and some guy Bills killed Ariel.”
Troy’s eyes widened in surprise, and then he tried to act unaffected.
“You didn’t question him this morning. You don’t even know where he’s at.”
“Sure I do. It was a nice, hidden location until you guy’s killed Ariel and dumped her body a few blocks away. One of the only trailers around town actually.”
Troy looked like he was panicking.
“Listen, Troy. As is, Triumph is blaming the entire murder on you.”
“Murder? I told you I don’t know the girl you’re talking about.”
“Yeah, well, there’s this thing called DNA, buddy. Your prints were not only found on the body but also on the Dumpster.”
“I didn’t kill her, though.”
“Your prints and your buddies Bills’s and Monte’s prints were found, plus she was raped. You and your buddies are talking about twenty to life between the charges of rape, murder, and disposing of the body.”
“Wait! It was Triumph that told us to get rid of the body. He’s the one that stabbed her. He was pissed because he was looking for Lena.”
The detective smiled.
“Triumph said that you killed her and that he saw you do it.”
“Bullshit! He’s fucking lying.”
“Yeah, well, the court will decide. Triumph right now will only be charged with trying to hide evidence and some minor things. Slaps on the wrist, really. Unless there’s more you know. I mean, considering that he ratted you and your gangbanging buddies out.”
“I can tell you a bu
nch of stuff. That asshole is not going to get away with this.” Troy began to tell the detective all about drug-smuggling deals and where Detective Reynolds could find the murder weapon.