His blue eyes glittered as he studied it.
“It’s very tasteful art, I will have you know, son!” Zack laughed, playfully punching Jasper’s bicep.
“Jesus, Dad, you don’t know your own strength,” he grumbled, rubbing his arm.
I smiled. “Jasper, thanks for being the man of the house when your Dad wasn’t here.”
“You are welcome, Jennifer. I am glad the bastard didn’t hurt you.”
“No, he didn’t, thanks to you. You are really tough, Jasper. Just like your Dad.”
Jasper’s chest puffed up with pride that I had compared him to his Dad.
Enough was enough.
Tonight this assignment ended.
Chapter Sixty Four
I loaded my gun and made sure my recording device was empty and ready for use.
After dinner, I went up to my room to collect my bag containing my gun. My heart was pounding and my stomach turned over and over.
Strictly speaking I knew that I was being completely reckless going after David Simms on my own but I could always call for backup if it was required.
“Are you okay, Jennifer? You seem a bit tense,” Zack asked, surveying my face as I stood in the hallway.
“I’m fine, just tired after everything,” I told him, kissing him.
“Are you sure you should go out tonight?”
“I won’t be long. I need to.”
“Okay, see you later and have fun, baby.”
I accelerated out of the driveway, spraying gravel up.
I was certainly going to miss this car.
Stop being so negative!
Inputting his address into the satellite navigation, I saw that he lived ten miles away in a nice suburb.
David Simms was thirty two, single, loaded, fluent in six languages but he was still a dick.
Well, this was it!
I pulled up to the kerb on the other side of the road, a few houses down from him and parked the Audi.
Quietly crossing the road, I crept up the driveway. David had a black Lexus parked there. There was an unlocked gate at the side of the house. His house looked stunning.
The lounge was to the rear of the large property and his curtains were open in the darkness. David was sitting in front of a laptop. I craned my neck from my hiding place to see what he was looking at. It came as no surprise to find that he was looking at porn and that he was also masturbating.
What a creep, but it was the perfect time to take him by surprise.
I crept along to the kitchen door and bingo, it was unlocked. I pushed down the handle as quietly as possible and entered the house. My gun was in my hand at my side and adrenaline surged through my veins.
The kitchen door led into the lounge that had an archway into the dining room. David was seated on a leather sofa with the laptop to the side of him. I watched him playing with himself with his trousers around his ankles. He looked so pathetic. His eyes were closed and I seized my opportunity. I turned on the recording device and quietly entered the room.
“You love playing with yourself, don’t you, David?”
I had stashed the gun in my waistband. I prayed that I wouldn’t need it.
“What the fuck do you want?” he shouted, covering himself up.
“Don’t bother, I have seen it all before and believe me I have seen a lot better than you! I thought you and I could have a talk, David. Pull up your pants and put your revolting little dick away.”
He stood up and pulled his trousers up quickly buttoning them up.
He exhaled noisily.
“I want to know exactly why you have been following me, breaking into Zack’s house and assaulting me. I don’t even want to think about what you did to me the other day, you fucking sicko!”
“I don’t know what you mean, you crazy bitch!”
“Look, I know it’s you. Stop lying to me, David.”
He looked at me with his bloodshot brown eyes. A shiver went down my spine.
“Okay. What do you want to know?”
“I want to know why you shot Billy and if you killed Phoebe.”
“Who are you, the fucking police?”
“I am actually, DC Jennifer Black, Ashford Constabulary,” I smugly told him, showing him my badge.
“Jesus, I was only joking! Does Zack know that you are the fuzz?”
“No, he doesn’t. I am undercover.”
“You should ask him what he knows about his wife, not me.”
“What do you mean?” I swallowed noisily.
It felt like the walls of the room were quickly closing in on me. My heartbeat quickened pounding loudly in my chest.
“Ok, I admit that I killed Billy, I really didn’t mean to. I liked the old man but he found out the truth and I couldn’t have that, Jennifer.”
“What about Phoebe? Were you the man seen in the woods arguing with her that day?”
“Yes, I was.”