After Death

CHAPTER 6- AN EX ON HER BACK

Jesse Gareth looked the woman before him, an unimpressed look on his face. As much as he would've loved to keep a professional façade and play his part like Adeline, he just couldn't.
Brielle Schield repulsed him.

"When was the last time you spoke to Mr Gardner?"

Brielle sniffed and sighed, "I won't lie. Three days ago before-" she stopped and blinked back the tears.

"Isn't that far too long to go without speaking to someone you're engaged to?" Jesse continued without a pause for her act.

"We- we had a fight okay? And-and-and he stormed out of the house and I didn't see him until the burial."
She sniffed and then eyed detective Drummond suspiciously as the unusual woman sat down quietly without saying a word.

She dragged her eyes away from her and back to detective Gareth, "look officers, I've been here a few times already, and I have been interrogated is there any need for this?"

"Listen detectives, my fiancé is dead and buried an-an-and gone. So please let me live with his memory untainted by his actions."

"Besides," she shrugged, "I have a child to attend to."

"Ms Schield, what did you mean by "live with his memory untainted by his actions?" Adeline asked immediately ignoring the latter statement.

Brielle gave her a look that said, "of all the things I said."

Detective Gareth looked at his partner and noticed her retrieve her recorder from her long coat pocket and press the record button, all the while her eyes were trained on Brielle Schield not a glint of what she was doing under the table.

He focused on Brielle now. Adeline was good. Too good.

"Owen and I have been in love for as long as I can remember," she began rambling.

Jesse Gareth tuned her out and turned to Adeline again and this time he could read the irritation and boredom coming off her.

"Ms Schield I asked a question not about your eulogy." Detective Drummond interrupted.
Brielle eyed her warily before her face contorted to an enraged one, "you know Owen was a good man but as usual men would always be men. Even the ones that are about to get married."

Detective Drummond felt she could actually relate. Cassidy was nothing short of this.
"But my surprise was the fact that he had to go for Ada. I was livid I mean who wouldn't. His best friend's wife!"

She slammed the table earning her a scowl from an unimpressed Adeline.

Too much dramatics to prove her point.
Detective Drummond marked it a red flag in her mental note.

"Steve is a very sweet man. Handsome and too good for a woman like Ada. I always wished I had met him first. Anyway, I confronted Ada and as you would've guessed rightly it didn't go well. But Ada being Ada made me take all the blame for the fallout."

"How long have you known Ada?" Detective Gareth asked this time around.

Brielle Schield swallowed hard before she answered, "since we were infants. My dad and hers were best friends."

"Hmm, you are aware that most of your statements are enough motive for murder?" Detective Drummond finally spoke, her hand clutching the recorder tightly.

"Excuse me, if you must know I will not raise my hands against Ada or any other women that were flocking around Owen. I am an upright citizen." She replied haughtily.

"Ada was a terrible human being period. I'm sorry, but I don't feel sorry that she has gone to hell."

And that ended the interrogation. After all detective Drummond had gotten what she needed.