Investigation: Interview [Part 2]

by SKermitgorf

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Eleanor James sat across from me smoking her cigarette, the smoke billowing up into the air.
Something about her made me suspicious. I wasn’t certain her answers would be true, but I had to ask them, it was my job.
I said, “Mrs. James, when did you last see your husband?”

“This morning,” she said in a husky three pack a day voice.

“Where was he headed? To work?”, I asked.

“He was going on a business trip actually”, she said as she blew more smoke into the already stale air.

“Where?”, I asked, getting impatient with her vague answers. She was hiding something, even a newbie like me was able to see that.

She said, “The Cayman Islands.”

“Mrs. James, you do realize that it is essential to our investigation that we find your husband?”, I said, getting testy.

“Call me Eleanor, ” she said.

She was flirting with me, with her eyes, her lips, the way she kept crossing and uncrossing her legs. I was becoming unglued. I couldn’t allow this.. femme fatale to rattle me, I had questions to ask and answers to get.

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  1. Investigation: Interview [Part 2]

    artistsrunwild's Buddy Icon artistsrunwild

    Posted 8 months ago

    This is fantastic!!!

    I had no idea what the questions were going to be! Thank you so much for sequeling!

    I like the last paragraph – the idea of her trying to rattle him works well
    :)

    And why is it everyone goes to the cayman islands when they disappear? You’d think that the cops would be onto it by now…lol :)

  2. Investigation: Interview [Part 2]

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    Posted 7 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    The Cayman Islands are just fun. Even bad people appreciate a nice beach, I guess. That and it has something to do with weak extradition treaties. Nice job, Kerm taking the little bits of character and adding and amplifying them.
    LoA

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