Wordle by Wordle: Day 121
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Wordle #1046 – PROWL
“I know what a search warrant is, obviously, and I understand what it says but—” Okay, now I’m getting flustered. “You’re accusing me? Of murdering Roy?”
I can’t help but laugh, it’s all so ludicrous.
Palumbo looks amused, too, but he’s laughing at me, not with me.
He continues to prowl around my living room, performatively conducting a mockery of a search—lifting up the corner of an afghan draped across my couch, overturning a candle, peeking into a jar of cat treats. He’s clearly leaving the actual legwork to the uniformed officers so that he can size me up.
“Well, did you?” Palumbo puts back a book he’d just riffled through and looks at me from under his eyebrows. “Murder Roy Liu, I mean.”
“N-no! Of course not!” I protest. The part of my brain that knows better warns me not to answer any more questions without a lawyer present. Not even to defend myself against bald accusations of murder.
“I had to ask.” He shrugs. “Could’ve made my job a lot easier.”
“You’re the lead detective on the case?” He doesn’t look like he could solve a two-piece puzzle, much less such a high-profile homicide.
“Guilty.” Palumbo smirks at me again and I consider the consequences of ripping his mustache right off his face.
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