Wordle by Wordle: Day 140
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Wordle #1065 – HITCH
Maybe she’s just humoring me, but Aparna gives in.
“Okay, let’s hear it,” she sighs and dutifully puts her pen to paper.
So, I tell her everything. From Bree’s affair with Austin Early to the ill-fated fight that led to Roy’s death to the attempted cover-up. Maybe I’m deluding myself, but I think Aparna’s interest piques as I spell out the details. She leans forward in her seat, her eyebrows shooting up every so often.
I move on to my confrontation with Bree yesterday, when she confessed everything.
“I even got Bree’s confession on tape… kind of. She didn’t know I was recording her, and the audio quality’s not so great.”
That’s an understatement. It had been so windy at Dolores Park that the resulting audio had sounded no clearer than an untuned TV, our voices only occasionally legible—barely. And then my phone had shut off shortly after getting into Bree’s Tesla. Stupid battery-draining audio app.
“Doesn’t matter, the recording would have been inadmissible in court anyway,” Aparna says, waving away my best piece of evidence.
My stomach knots at her reaction—she should be thrilled about a confession that absolves her client, right?—and then it hitches even tighter at the mention of court.
Even though I’ve been stewing in a police station for the past several hours, I haven’t allowed myself to think about what happens next. Not even for a second. Going to trial—to jail—is too inconceivable for me to grasp right now.
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Inconceivable!