Killer On a Hot Tin Roof (2010)
“and I said, “Arrest!” at the same time, and both words came out like startled yelps.
I wasn’t completely surprised by Ramsey’s threat, because a similar thought had gone through my head a few moments earlier. Thinking about it, though, and hearing the actual words coming out of an angry police detective’s mouth were two mighty different things.
“Take it easy,” Nesbit said with a soothing quality in his voice. They were back to the good cop, bad cop bit. “Nobody’s being arrested. We just want to... ask you a few questions, Dr. Paige.”
“Yeah,” Ramsey said. “Like what did this meddling redhead tell you?”
Why do men always have to bring up the color of my hair? If I’d been a blonde, a guy might have mentioned that every once in a while, but Ramsey never would have asked, What did this brunette tell you? Never in a million years.
I don’t know why that crazy thought crossed my head just then, but it did. I ignored it and said, “I didn’t tell her anything. We were just making small talk like you do when you run into an acquaintance in a hotel hallway.”MoreLess
I wasn’t completely surprised by Ramsey’s threat, because a similar thought had gone through my head a few moments earlier. Thinking about it, though, and hearing the actual words coming out of an angry police detective’s mouth were two mighty different things.
“Take it easy,” Nesbit said with a soothing quality in his voice. They were back to the good cop, bad cop bit. “Nobody’s being arrested. We just want to... ask you a few questions, Dr. Paige.”
“Yeah,” Ramsey said. “Like what did this meddling redhead tell you?”
Why do men always have to bring up the color of my hair? If I’d been a blonde, a guy might have mentioned that every once in a while, but Ramsey never would have asked, What did this brunette tell you? Never in a million years.
I don’t know why that crazy thought crossed my head just then, but it did. I ignored it and said, “I didn’t tell her anything. We were just making small talk like you do when you run into an acquaintance in a hotel hallway.”MoreLess
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