Not Happily Married in Hollywood: Not in Hollywood Book 2 by Leonie Gant Read Free Book Online Page A

would take a lot more work than I
was willing to endure to put me into the league of these two women.
    “Oh Trudie” Adele said holding out her arm towards me. I
gripped her hand and was surprised at the fragility that I felt in it.
    “Are you alright, you poor thing. What you saw yesterday
must have been so traumatic for you.”
    “I’m fine” I said squeezing her hand.
    “Can you tell us what happened?” Elliot interrupted. “The
police aren’t telling us anything other than Eric was found dead with Adele.”
    Miranda interrupted. “Surely this can wait until later,
Adele has already been through so much, the last thing she needs is to hear
about this.”
    Adele smiled at Miranda and patted her on the hand.
    “I know you are trying to protect me Randi, but I need to
know what happened. The last thing I remember is going to bed, my bed, two
nights ago. Next thing I know, I wake up here and they’re telling me that Eric
is dead. I need to know what happened.”
    “I can’t tell you much” I said cautiously, desperately
trying to work out what I could tell her. Adele was my client but I did not
want to do anything which could compromise Griffin’s investigation. “I arrived
yesterday morning, the house was quiet so I went looking for you. I found you
both in Eric’s room, in bed together. There was blood on his side of the bed. I
checked that you were breathing and then called for an ambulance. The police
got there almost immediately and the ambulance was right behind them. After
that I got taken to the police station. I was kept there for a while but I
couldn’t tell them anything more than that.”
    “So you didn’t see anything else, a car leaving, anyone
strange around the property?” Elliot asked.
    “I’m sorry, there was nothing unusual except for the house
being quiet.”
    “I’m so glad that whoever did this wasn’t still there when
you walked in” Adele said quietly squeezing my hand once again.
    “I just wish you hadn’t been there” said Miranda, tears in
her eyes as she put an arm around Adele.
    Elliot walked over and squeezed his wife’s shoulder. Looking
at them I remembered what Adele had told me about her lawyer and his wife. The
three of them had known each other for years, along with Adele’s first husband.
They had gone through school together and always been a tight knit group. Adele
had told me that she wouldn’t have made it through the death of her first
husband without their support. It looked like they were going to need to
support her through the death of another husband.
    Adele gave a small smile. “I need to talk to Trudie about
some things. Could we have a few moments?”
    Elliot and Miranda nodded and after both of them gave Adele
a kiss on the cheek they left the room.
    “Sit down here Trudie” Adele said patting the bed.
    “What did you want to talk about” I asked as I sat down.
    “I’m going to be expected to organize the funeral for Eric”
she said. I though the way she phrased that was interesting. “I need you to do
that. I can’t deal with any of this. I won’t deal with it. Can you take care of
it?”
    “Of course I can” I said soothingly. “I need details on
Eric’s family so that I can coordinate with them.”
    “Eric never talked about his family but before we got
married I had a private investigator look into his background. By the time the
investigation started I had gone to Vegas with Eric and married him. By that
point I didn’t want Eric to find out what I had done, so I paid the
investigator and told him to get rid of the file. He might still have some
information.”
    “Do you have a name for me?” I asked, wanting desperately to
know how she could be so stupid as to have Eric investigated and not do
anything about it. Within the first few minutes of meeting the guy, every
instinct in me had started blaring that there was something suspicious about
him. It was too late to do anything about it now, we just had to deal with