Gospel of V by Faust H. M
Author:Faust, H. M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00
The Fall of House Cosmigrove (6)
âSo?â Gray spoke behind the door of his room. âAm I supposed to do something about that? As far as Iâm concerned, itâs more bodies for you to hide. Forget Stokerâs share. I wonât make my price go up. I wonât leave this room until I get it. You wonât call the police. And let me assure you â you certainly wonât hurt me.
âSo, as far as Iâm concerned, nothing has changed.
âGo to your lawyer. Sort the transfer out. You slip the proof under this door. I wonât even complain if youâve got the first check ready. Thatâs when I leave. You bury whoever you need to. And thatâs that. Our business is done. The rest is between you and the killer.
âOr donât. And I call the police. And we go down together.â
*
âIâll kill him.â Sofie paced around the dining room table. âWeâre not giving him shit. You hear me? Nothing. We tell him whatever we need to do to get him out of there and then we get him and chop him to bits and we bury him with the rest.â
Mundus stared out the window. He squinted against the morning light.
âWeâre not murderers.â
âDoesnât make much of a difference now, does it?â My sister scoffed. âWeâve got three murders weâre hiding no matter what. Whatâs one more? Thereâs a good chance someone here did it, anyway. Theyâre certainly not going to be absolved.â
Or Gray himself was the culprit.
âIn which case,â Sofia glanced in my direction, âhe deserves to die, not be given a check!â
âJust to be clear.â Prospero sat at the head of the table, his hands covering his head, âIâve been as neutral as I can be in this matter, but if I directly witness you killing someone, Iâll be the one calling the police. This needs to stop, one way or the other.â
âOh, shut up!â She slammed her foot against the floor. âIâve just had enough about you! You â the mysterious detective! You havenât detected a thing! Three people have died under your watch, and all you've done is throw snark. You think youâre better than us? You donât fool me. Your explanations sound smart, but they donât actually contribute to anything, do they? Youâre a fraud.â
Prospero raised his hands in the air, saying nothing.
Sofia marched over to him. âWhy are you here, anyway? Weâve come this far together, you might as well share.â
âIâm bound by client confidentiality.â
âWhatever your client asked you to tell Father couldâve been the thing that started this whole thing!â
âAnd if it wasnât, Iâd be giving the culprit a nice red herring to throw our way.â He cocked his head. âI understand where youâre coming from, butââ
âYou understand nothing.â
âEnough.â Mundus raised his hand. âLetâs go talk to Hastings.â
âMundus. Mundus, please listen to me, this isnâtââ
âIf nothing else, to hear his opinion. You know heâs not afraid to get his hands dirty. If thereâs another way out of this or something else we can offer Gray to keep quiet, then there might be another way out.
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