Dead Man's Rules (41 page)
Authors: Rebecca Grace
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Thrillers, #Romance, #Romantic Suspense, #Mystery & Suspense, #Contemporary, #Suspense, #Ghosts, #Action-Suspense
She looked toward the Palladium. Despite the efforts of firemen, flames licked its foundation and leaped into the night sky. The building was burning to the ground and taking all its secrets. Fire danced in the window where Marco left his bloody hand print.
“All that’s left of Marco is gone,” Rafe said, wiping a hand across his face, and she realized he was crying.
Lifting her hand, she stroked the tears away. “No, he lives in you and Ginny. And his writing. If you want to know him, read his songs, his letters. It’s all there.” She looked one last time at the room where Marco died. In the flames she could almost see his eyes, but they no longer glowed with bitterness. Rafe gazed down at her and in his eyes—Marco’s—she saw love. She had helped Marco, but in the end he helped her much more.
Epilogue
Raucous noise filled the Matador, but when bright TV lights went on and Cere stepped forward to speak into the microphone, the room grew silent.
“The political speeches and essays written by Marco Gonzales will be published. To the people who visited the site of his death, he was a ghostly myth built around a bloody hand print. To the people here in his cousin’s restaurant, he was a hero ahead of his time who died too young. Now everyone will know the man who celebrated life with his words. This is Cere Medina reporting for
Scope,
in Rio Rojo, New Mexico.”
She handed the mike to Audrey, who stepped from behind the camera. “Great story, babe. It might even be the lead tonight.”
Wiping her cheek in case a tear edged out of her eye, Cere shook her head. “I doubt it. I had to beg Alan to let me do it as a cold case feature.”
She had left out any mention of Marco’s doomed romances. As for his love songs, they belonged to Lottie and she wanted to keep them to herself for now.
Audrey winced as her phone beeped. “Alan wants you to call him.”
“When are you coming home?” he demanded when she reached him. “Did you hear about Len Perkins, the comedian? His wife drowned in their swimming pool. He claims he was out of town, but someone saw him climbing the back fence the night she died. I need you to climb the wall. Get into the pool area. Talk to the neighbors.”
Cere tuned out of the conversation. Rafe was beckoning her to a table where he and Ginny sat beside her mother and Tony Gennaro.
“Alan, I am home. That was my last report.”
“You’re getting out of the business?”
“I’ll send you the town paper with my next story.”
A word about the author...
Rebecca Grace is a former award winning broadcast journalist who is now writing fiction. She specializes in romance, romantic suspense and mystery novels, novellas and short stories. She is also the co-author of a how-to book on creating characters and teaches writing classes.
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