Chapter 10

Through the interrogation room window, Tamsin saw Bo sitting in there behind the table. Her hands were cuffed onto the table and her feet were chained. She looked calm, but exhausted. That made Tamsin wonder if she had fed properly since she was arrested.

Oh really, you just couldn't find anything else to worry about for a murder suspect?

Tamsin walked in the room by herself, with no one watching from outside either, since the police had agreed with Bo that she could have this conversation with Tamsin alone.

" Heard you wanted to talk today." Tamsin sat down. She cleared her throat and started the conversation by looking at the files instead of Bo.

" I told them I would like to have a conversation with you alone, yes."

" Then talk. " Tamsin said.

" I am not the killer. I need your help."

" What?"

" I need your help. I didn't kill those people. I didn't do this. Please, just listen to me..."

Are you freaking kidding me? After all the things that happened and now you are trying to tell me that you are innocent? Tamsin could not control her anger anymore. She had been ignoring this anger inside her for the past few weeks by drinking, sleeping and tuning out from everything, ever since she made the arrest. This leashed beast was screaming inside her, trying to break loose. And now it finally had. She just couldn't tell why she was so pissed, maybe it was because of Bo, or herself, or both.

" I saw you there! You had your hand on the body and blood on your hand! And we've matched the murder weapon with your dagger! Do yourself, and me, a favor please! Just confess to your crime and we'll all be done here! "

" But you did not see me killing them, did you? You also did not find the lost items from the deposit boxes either." Bo said.

" I think we're done here." Tamsin stood up and started walking towards the door.

" What is the date today?" Bo asked, right before Tamsin left the room.

" What?" Tamsin was confused. That was something beyond her expectation. She could beg for her life, or say something that could clean herself. Instead, she asked what date it was today?

" What is the date today?" Bo repeated.

" May 21. Why? You got a birthday gift to wrap?"

" Four days before the full moon." Bo said.

" What is your point?"

" I am telling you that I am innocent, and someone else is going to get killed tomorrow."

" Seriously, you think this would actually work?" Tamsin said, " Something that you should know, we've checked all bank database, and 5th continental is the last one where Glenn Rauch had a deposit box."

" True, except banks are not the only places that you could store something safe." Bo said.

" It would have been a great story, if you dagger did not matched the murder weapon model."

" My dagger is not one of a kind."

" Oh, common! How many more of these crap can you come up with? So I am supposed to just believe you, and do what? Let you go?"

" Yes, in fact you should let me go right now. We are running out of time here!" Bo finally got an expression of worrisome on her face. It almost looked real.

Oh common. You can not fall for that. She's a succubus! She manipulates people's feelings! That is what she does!

" Sorry, the only thing you can get is jail time. See you around."

" Think, Tamsin, just think for a minute. If I were the killer, why would I stay there afterwards? If I were this good at killing, why couldn't I handle those red caps myself the first night we met? In fact, why didn't I just kill you that night?"

" I don't know. And honestly, I don't want to know. " Tamsin said.

This was the last thing she said to her, before she walked out the room. She did not want to admit that what Bo said did make some sense. But that was not what irritated her. Seeing Bo sitting there, alone, helpless and tired, with a hint of sorrow and agony in her eyes and all the bruises on her wrists, all she really wanted to do was to comfort her. And that thought had just pissed her off.