Chapter 26
I threw caution to the wind and decided to press the old man. Even if he took out Owen, and I doubted that he did in his poor physical condition, Hannah was right. There was only one of him but two of us and youth was on our side; more hers than mine but I was still only half his age.
“I hear you used to have a thing for Eunice Lafferty, back in the day when you were supposed to be Drew’s business partner. Some people even say the two of you had an affair. Do you deny that?”
He looked stricken. “What? No. Where did you hear that?”
“It’s come up more than once in my research about the town’s oil men, Mr. Bailey. A few different people have mentioned it or confirmed it. It doesn’t appear to be a rumor that’s just going around...not after all of these years.”
His face fell and
