Page 29 of Craving Vengeance
Shannon shook her head.
“Where else did you stop?” Walker asked.
“I pulled into the parking lot up the street to talk to him for a minute.”
Walker cocked a brow.
Shannon continued, “He made me so furious when he announced in front of everyone upstairs that we were engaged, I just needed to get him the hell out of here. I also wanted to take a minute to make him understand that we were through. Evidently, he didn’t fully understand that when I gave the engagement ring back to him two years ago.”
“So you talked for a couple of minutes and then took him to the Hyatt?”
Shannon nodded. “What time was that?”
“We left here shortly after 1:00. I talked with him for five, maybe ten minutes before I drove him to the hotel.”
Walker glanced at Spinelli then shifted his eyes back to Shannon. “Did you go up to his room?”
She looked at Spinelli and held his gaze for what seemed like an eternity. His thudding heart and pounding pulse was all he could hear. Both faded the longer he stared into her gaze, though he still wasn’t sure he wanted to hear her answer. The ring in his pocket weighed down his twitching leg. The silence was excruciating.Would she just answer already!
She ripped her gaze from Spinelli’s and returned it to Walker. “No, I didn’t go to his room. We talked in the car for a bit, and then I left.”
“Was he acting strange at all?”
Shannon thought for a moment. “No. He was a little upset, but he didn’t act strange.”
“Why was he upset?”
She looked at Spinelli. “I would imagine he didn’t like that I declined his offer to go to his room and that I reiterated the fact that I’m seeing someone else.”
Walker nodded. “Where did you go after you dropped him off?”
“I stopped at Subway to pick up a sandwich, and then I came back to work.”
“So you say you ended it and dropped him off at the hotel, and he was upset with you. Yet he agreed to work with you on the fundraiser tonight,” Spinelli cut in.
Walker stepped back.
“He’s an adult. He was doing what was best for the church,” Shannon snapped back. Her condescending tone shamed him.
“I don’t get it. Why would he want to help you with your church’s fundraiser?”
“He went to my church. That’s how I met him. In fact, the reason I haven’t seen him for the past couple of years is because he was on a church mission trip in Nicaragua.”
Spinelli caught Walker’s sideways glance and snicker.
He felt like such an ass. The perfect Dr. Joshua Meyers was on a church mission trip. Reality check. He was jealous of a dead guy, and he knew if he didn’t shut his mouth right here and now he’d be minus the woman he loved as well. But still, why did she kiss the wholesome doctor the way she did this afternoon?
“Nick, I don’t want to discuss this now. Not here,” Shannon said as her gaze drifted back to the crime board. He didn’t really want to either, ever. He hated this type of confrontation in public or private.
Shannon squinted at the board again. “So, this is what Uncle Bernie was talking about?”
“Yes.”
“How many cupids were murdered today?”
“Four so far.”
“Four?”
