Void in Hearts (26 page)

Now Maggie had been killed, and Marc was being held, and I wondered if it was possible that Marc was not guilty.

I recalled one other thing Des had said that day on the boat with Marc and Maggie when the bluefish didn’t bite. “I wish,” Des said of Marc’s new bride, “that my son treated her better.”

So I tooled through the summer night, remembering the dead stripper and singing about Good Vibrations with my Beach Boys tape.

The vibrations I was feeling were decidedly not good.

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