Chapter79:

Richie seized this peaceful opportunity to ponder over everything that had been happening in the past month. He decided to turn every table, leaving no one out. He thought about Ashley and how she was a probable suspect in Elaine's disappearance case but then he knew that Elaine hadn’t snitched on the girl. Ashley was big on loyalty… and since Elaine had done her own side of whatever deal they had on, then she would be off Elaine's back. He also thought of Jude but the young man was dead, thus leaving him with his mother and jane. Those two were the only people he could bring himself to suspect but then he still couldn’t wrap his head around how or why they would try to get Elaine out of the way. his Elaine… He thought about the part where she told him about being pregnant and it made him sick because now he wasn’t sure if she had made it up or if the autopsy results had been a lie. He could remember how he has always been sceptical about having kids, how he always developed cold feet