Blank (A Lincoln Delabar Action Adventure Thriller Book 1) by Richard C Hale

Author:Richard C Hale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Three Thirty A.M. Publishing
Published: 2014-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

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“Do you think he’d mind if we used some of this money to pay for a private eye?” I asked. “I don’t want Avril using her money if she doesn’t have to. There’s a lot in here.”

We were driving back to Blanding with the bag on my lap and Avril was counting the money. She had gotten to $50,000.00 and was not done yet.

“This is a lot of money,” she said, “but it’s not ours. I don’t think we should use it.”

“I do. George tasked me with this job. Don’t you think he expected me to use what he has to get it done? We’re using some.”

“I think Linc is right,” Kaylin said. “He can’t expect us to spend our own money on his last wish. I’m sure it will be okay. It will just be a little bit.”

“We can’t carry this around,” I said. “We need to put it somewhere safe.”

“I have a locked closet in my room,” Avril said. “We could keep it there until we find her.”

Kaylin drove to Avril’s house and she ran in with the bag and came back out a few minutes later.

“All safe and sound,” she said. “All $75,000 of it.”

“He must have saved his whole life for that,” I said.

Kaylin took us to the only place she knew that might help. It was a small office in one of those strip malls with a laundromat and a car parts store. The door had a sign that read Jennings’ Investigations.

Inside, an older woman sat at a desk working on the computer. She saw me and frowned, but after a moment, she plastered a smile on her face and asked if she could help us.

“We’re trying to find someone,” Kaylin said.

“You’re in the right place. We charge by the hour though and it may get expensive. Do you have a means to pay us?”

“Yes,” Kaylin said.

The woman nodded. A tall man in jeans and a polo shirt came out of a room in the back and smiled. He had gray hair that was cut very short and if I were to guess, he was in his sixties.

“I’m Bill,” the man said. “Bill Jennings.”

“Bill, they’re trying to find someone,” the woman said and handed him a form.

“Come on back to my office and you can tell me all about it,” he said.

We followed him back and told a version of our story that we thought would work. He didn’t believe a word of it.

“We’re not lying to you, Mr. Jennings,” Kaylin said.

“But you’re not telling me everything. I don’t think I can help you.”

He started to get up from behind his desk and I waved him down.

“He needs to know too,” I told Kaylin. “Apparently nobody believes us anyway. Might as well give it a shot.”

She shrugged and told him everything. He listened with his chin in his hand and his eyes searching back and forth among us and then settling on me.

He took a deep breath. “That’s pretty amazing,” he said. I couldn’t tell if he was being sarcastic or not.

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