Chapter 37 - Chapter 36

# Chapter 36
AYANDA

I try to conceal the slight shake in my hands by switching on the coffee machine and reaching into the cupboard for a clean cup. "Are you sure you don't want some coffee?"

Captain Cupido offers me a polite smile. "I'm alright, thank you."

Beside him, Warrant Officer Bester declines, too, and I turn back around.

When the coffee is brewed and poured into my cup, I take a seat opposite the detectives. It's too hot, so I blow on it to give me something to do, unsure where to look. Malusi Mancoba's decapitated head is stuffed inside my freezer until I figure out what to do with it. Now that there's an unmarked police car permanently parked outside my house, it would look very suspicious if I started burying items in my back garden or beneath the stoep. And I can't toss it in the dustbin outside.

Now I just have to sit here as though I have a pole stuck up my ass while trying my damn hardest not to peer over Cupido's shoulder at the freezer.

"Are you okay, ma'am?"

"Huh?" I blink, nearly tipping the coffee.

Reaching out, he steadies my hand. "You seem a little off, nè?"

"I'm not sleeping well," I lie.

Cupido's warm hand squeezes my wrist reassuringly before he drops it back to the table.

"Have you found him yet?" I ask, though I know the answer.

He shakes his head. "Not yet, but we're looking everywhere."

Sipping my coffee, my heart beating erratically, I smile weakly.

"Do you know this man?" Cupido slides a photograph of Mancoba towards me.

"He was my father's friend."

"He was reported missing this morning."

No shit.

"The Bridge Killer?"