Agnes by Maddox Jaime

Author:Maddox, Jaime [Maddox, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626390331
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Retreat

It was difficult to focus on the conversation taking place around her. Sandy’s head pounded, her heart raced, and her hands trembled.

Someone had shot her. Twice. If it hadn’t been for a Guardian Service ice bucket left over from Grandma Davis’s lifetime, hers would be over.

They sat at the table—Sandy, Pat and two Pennsylvania State Troopers. Fragments of the conversation filtered into her consciousness. “Retired NYPD. Picnic. Two shots. Expert marksman.” She became aware of Pat’s hand on her own and then slowly drew her vision into focus and was able to concentrate on the words floating toward her from around her kitchen table.

“Do you know of anyone who would want to harm you, Ms. Parker?” Trooper Carl Beers of the Pennsylvania State Police asked.

Mystified, in total shock, Sandy shook her head. “No,” she whispered, “Absolutely not.” This attack was unbelievable. To her knowledge, she had no enemies. She had left her firm on Wall Street to take care of Diane well before the crash in 2008. If anything, her former clients would have sung her praises. She’d advised them through the bull market that had made many of them wealthy, and none of them had any reason to want to bring harm to her. From a personal perspective, she couldn’t imagine anyone she knew wanting to harm her. Her life was a good one, filled with good friends. She didn’t have any family except for Angie and…

“Oh, my God,” she said, focusing again on their faces. The unthinkable had just occurred to her. It was awful, too terrible to comprehend, but it did happen. It happened every day, she imagined. Money is the root of all evil. She knew that from the feud in her family and from her career on Wall Street. Was she seeing it yet again?

“What is it? Sandy?” Pat asked, the concern in her voice evident.

“The Davis land. There’s a lawsuit over the land. If I was out of the picture…well, I think it would make a few dozen of my distant relatives very happy.” Sandy knew Angie wouldn’t have fought the Davis descendants. Without Sandy in their way they would have their gas leases and all the millions that came with them. Could it be one of them was that desperate that they would have tried to kill her for the money they’d make in the deal?

As the thought took hold in her mind, it grew roots and became stronger. It made perfect sense! Her cousins knew this land, even better than she did. They were hunters. They had motive. Any one of them could have fired the shot that might have ended all of their trouble and then faded back into the woods undetected. Sadly, she realized that was the most plausible explanation for this attack. One of her grandmother’s relatives wanted the gas rights to the land and would kill to get it. She’d seen enough of the evil in mankind to know that men had killed for much less.

Sandy gave the trooper the names of her cousins, the older ones.

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