unspoken thing » jj maybank

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When they arrived at the construction site, any previous conversation about Sean went right through the window when they realized Gavin was nowhere in sight—not even a drop of blood to confirm the gunshots.

The police arrived, preparing to treat this as an investigation but all evidence went down the drain, literally.

Kiara pointed to the ground, "Look, it was right here, and this is where that maniac claimed his next victim!"

Shoupe stood there with bored eyes, clearly not believing her. "Uh-huh. His next victim?"

"Yeah. I swear, it's true." Emelina inserted herself in, but not even her presence could sway his current opinion on this. "Right... How long ago did you say it happened?"

JJ bent over to have a look around the place, searching on the floor, under the large tables and tools, anything to prove their predicament.

Emelina answered him, "Like, forty-five minutes ago?"

"Okay," Shoupe clicked his pen as he finished writing in his pad, if he was writing anything, "And so, Ward Cameron just popped one-off and shot him."

"Yes," Kiara replied.

"Execution style? And then cleaned it all up in forty-five minutes?"

"Yeah."

"Obviously," Pope chimed in.

"Look, we filmed the entire thing." Kiara said and Shoupe raised his head, "You filmed it?"

Kiara nodded, "Yes, but we can't show it to you because I stepped on JJ's hand, and then he kicked Pope, and then Pope dropped the camera 'cause it's a piece of shit, and it broke."

"This is a telephoto, and we needed to get a long-distance image, and... and... and I fell, and it broke, so the video is basically unusable. But... but we were there, and we're wit—" Pope tried to explain. After hearing it out loud, Emelina realized how stupid it sounded.

"So the dog ate your homework?" Shoupe cut him off.

Emelina raised her hands and spoke, "I know it sounds unbelievable, but it's true! All of us saw Ward shoot him—"

"Look, I don't know what you kids expect me to do with this. Alright, you drag me out here in the middle of the night for a whole lot of nothing—"

"No, it's not nothing!" Kiara tried, but he continued to speak over her. "—Except for some crazy stories about how Ward Cameron's out on a random killing spree."

"We're not making this up, Shoupe!" JJ argued. "It's not a random killing spree! Gavin was his pilot! Okay, he was paying him hush money because he was on the tarmac that day." Pope explained.

Kiara continued for him, "Gavin was blackmailing Ward because he had the gun that Rafe used to kill Peterkin."

"And then he called him here and tried to pay him off!" JJ said. Emelina finished it for them, "And obviously it wasn't enough, so Ward shot him with the murder weapon."