Why Not Murder

47. Questions

47. Questions

"More has to come out," Maya replied to Winnie, "I'm an investigator and I don't work for the authorities, police or otherwise. I don't accept payment for my services and that means that I don't work for any clients either. I won't work against anyone either. I am in search of the truth, if such a thing exist. I know more than what you have disclosed. You have given me information you must trust me with and so, to balance your fear of possible consequences from your disclosure, I will tell you things that you must keep secret. This way we are even. I don't tell on you and you don't tell on me."

Winnie agreed. Maya took one of Winnie's hands, held it palm upward and placed the ring she had found in Winnie's vehicle with the inscription on the interior: WL, then a heart, then WL. Winnie looked at it stunned. Maya said, "Warren Lockwood loves Winnie Laymuir."

"Where did you find this?" Winnie asked.

"Amongst the gravel in the parking lot in the front of the house," Maya replied. "You and Warren, aka Hudson's brother, aka Wyler Roberts, etc, were having an affair. You became pregnant and Warren threatened blackmail. You would stop at nothing to assure Hudson believed he was the father. One night when Hudson was at the office, you picked Warren up from town and brought him back here. You drugged him with sleeping pills and when he passed out, you put him in the sports car, drove to the cliff, put him in the driver' seat and let the car drive over the cliff. Then you came back home using a bike hidden in the forest." Winnie was looking at Maya in wonder, amazed she knew all this.

Maya continued, "Next morning I was walking along the shore and came to the car nosedived in the water. I pulled the body out and tried to revive him but he was already dead. I buried his body in the forest, hoping to keep the animals from scavenging him, but he was dug up by a bear, dragged to the road, his face was torn off and he was partially eaten. The sounds of an oncoming vehicle drove the bear away. When I took him out of the water I found the driver's license for Warren Lockmere in his pocket and the insurance information which had your address here. That's how I came to you guys."

"Why didn't you say anything before?" Winnie asked.

"I didn't want to admit that I had taken the body from the scene," Maya said, "I used to be in the police force and should have known better but for some reason that never occurred to me at the time. I still can't explain or justify my actions."

"What's more," Maya added, "You used the sports car because of your anger with Hudson and this way it could appear to be a car theft gone horribly wrong."

"So you're ok with what I did?" Winnie asked.

"No, I am not ok with it," Maya answered, "but that doesn't mean that I am going to report to those who claim to be our authorities. I don't morally accept their rule of law nor their laws. Killing has been politicalized. If the authorities say it's ok, then that's one thing, but if the authorities don't agree with the motive, then it's murder if done for the sake of an individual and terrorism if done on behalf of a group."

"Sisters of confession," Winnie said and they both smiled with an honest feeling of being closer spiritually.

Then Winnie said, "But I don't understand the role Gwen grown up plays in my nightmare now."

"It's about the future," Maya said, "I'm interested in dream symbolism and know a fair bit about it, but remember, I am only giving you my thoughts and by no means definitive answers. Gwen grown up is your future good self, in my opinion, as you think that would be, based on what you are now. You the pursuer, believing yourself to be with intent to kill, is the you of today making that future impossible."