When the Killers Come Out » Zarry 🔞⚠️✅

7: "Hi."

A couple days later, Harry receives a phone call. He knows who it is, so he picks it up and answers it.

"Hello?"

"Hey, babe."

Hearing that pet name makes Harry cringe. He really hates when Diego calls him that. He's really trying his best to make Harry something he isn't.

"What's up?"

"A lot of stuff."

Harry notices he sounds different from how he was the last time he called.

"Are you okay?"

"I really need to talk to you."

"I'm at work. I can't really talk."

"I know. I mean over dinner. Let's go get dinner and talk."

"Um..."

"I have news about you know what. But I know you won't like it."

Harry's heart rate picks up.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm at work. Can't discuss. Let's have dinner at Marino's Pizza at eight. We'll grab a table outside and talk."

"Uh..."

He doesn't want to. But Diego is making him nervous him right now.

"Yeah, let's meet up there and then."

"Okay. See you then. And dress nice. We'll make it a dinner date."

"We'll see."

He hangs up the phone and stares at his computer.

Dress nice.

He scoffs and sits back in his chair with a hand on his chin. Diego really thinks he can make him into some domestic man. But he can't. He's a very bad man and it is what it is. But he also guesses he can't be too mad when Diego has no clue who he's really dealing with. Because that's a good thing.

So later that evening after work, Harry finds himself sitting across from Diego. They're the only people outside under the umbrella because it's warm. But it isn't too bad. And just because, Harry decided to show up in a white suit with a white muscle shirt underneath. At least he can have the appearance of being pure when he really isn't.

"So can you please tell me now? I've been waiting for you to tell me what you said you wanted to tell me."

"Okay, okay." Diego says as he wipes his mouth with a napkin.

"What I wanted to tell you is that we were wrong."

"Wrong?"

"Well, not wrong because we hadn't said anything to the public yet. But we didn't find the Long River Stangler."

Harry feigns shock so well he could have fooled even himself.

"You didn't?"

"No."

"Then who was the guy at the river? And what about the guy that was strangled?"

"When our suspect got out of the hospital, we ran his DNA. It didn't match the DNA we recovered from the Long River Strangler's victims."

"Whoa. So who was that guy if he wasn't him?"

"Just some random guy high on LSD. According to him, he and his best friend went down by the river to hang out. They were both taking LSD and went skinny dipping for fun. He started hallucinating. That caused him to go into a frenzy and he choked his friend to death. Then he passed out long enough for someone to find him and call the police."