"Tim LaHaye - Left Behind Kids 04 - Facing The Future" - читать интересную книгу автора (LaHaye Tim)

Now Lionel didn't know what to do. He hadn't really wanted to talk to her. He had just wanted to
distract her, to keep her from saying anything to LeRoy and Cornelius in case she had realized that they
were being set up. It sounded as if she had never given that a thought.

"Yeah, come on over. I'm real sorry about andré. You and your friends think LeRoy killed him."
"What do you think, Talia?"

"I don't want to think about it. I couldn't stand it if I thought LeRoy did something like that."

"You think LeRoy's never killed somebody before?"

"Not unless it was self-defense," she said. "Anyway, I was in love with andré, and LeRoy knew that."

"Did andré know it?"

"I hope so."

"I don't think he did," Lionel said. "You did a good job of hiding it."

Now she was crying. "Don't remind me," she said. "I was tryin' to control him, that's all. I figured if I
made everything too easy for him, he would never do the right thing. andré was a wild man, you know."

"I know."

"I wanted him to behave, to act right, to grow up, for me."

"He was tryin', I think. There at the end, I mean. Only somebody murdered him."

"Oh, no," she said. "He just died in that fire, that's all."

"Haven't you seen the news, Talia? He was found with a bullet hole in his neck, and he wound up
bleeding to death. The fire would have killed him, but we pulled him out of there. We knew he was
bleeding, but we didn't know why or where from. If we knew, we might have been able to stop the
bleeding and save him."

"I'm sorry, Lionel."

"That LeRoy did this?"

"I'm not sayin that."

"I am. How come you're alone there any-way?"

"LeRoy and Connie are in Chicago."

"What for?"

"I don't know. Some insurance thing. We're gonna be rich, so they tell me."