“Yes. Remember? She was fired yesterday.”
“Yes. I do remember, now that you"ve reminded me.” My mind was whirling with several things. How were the deaths of this couple related? Or were they?
She pulled in snot and said, “Someone tried to say he shot her, and then came here and hung himself.”
“What? That"s just ridiculous!” I said with passion. “I saw him yesterday, spoke with him, he seemed fine. He loved his wife. I could tell.” Even though I"d only just met him, my intuition about people was never wrong.
“Well, it just goes to show you how much you don"t know people,” she said with a shrug.
Of course, I wasn"t convinced by any stretch. But I wasn"t going to win an argument over this, and so dropped it. The dust would have to settle first.
She looked at her cell phone and said, “I
