Centenary Separation by James Litherland

Author:James Litherland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, adventure, historical, suspense, speculative, Christian, clean
Publisher: Outpost Stories
Published: 2014-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Anticipating Events

September 16th, 2012 Burnt Ash, Virginia

VERITY drove her Mercedes into the country club parking lot, turning into one of the vacant spots because secretaries didn’t avail themselves of the valet service. Generally they did not come here to pester their employers either, but she needed a way to see Hollingsworth away from his home-office, and that meant playing the part of the man’s executive secretary. At least she only had to be herself for this role —if any real acting were required, she’d be in trouble.

Stepping out of the car, she smoothed her dress and realized how much she appreciated being back in a conservative skirt suit—what had basically been her work uniform for several years. It had only been a few weeks that she’d gone without proper attire—but between quitting her job, marrying Turner, and then chauffeuring Karat around, it felt like forever. The quality wasn’t what she was used to, but after a week with Karat, she was running low on funds.

Taking a pregnant woman down to Virginia had slowed her down and tapped her out. Though carting Karat to Hollingsworth, to hand her problems to him—that had been the whole point of the trip. So Verity couldn’t very well complain.

She’d discovered where Hollingsworth had disappeared to without much difficulty. It had merely meant returning to her old workplace to face her old boss—Mr. Hemmings was still the branch manager and as disapproving of secretaries who would abandon their posts for marriage as he’d been when she had quit. He’d quite relished being unable to share with her any information he had about recent activities on the part of Travelers’ Trust recipients. She didn’t work there anymore, and it was confidential. Fortunately he hadn’t been able to think of a reason why he couldn’t tell her about Hollingsworth.

The lawyer had retired his Manhattan practice, then moved back to his Virginia hometown. But the man had been unable to give up the law completely. Now he was a one-man operation working out of his home, with only his wife for a secretary.

Hopefully the club personnel didn’t know that—or would assume he’d hired Verity recently. If they challenged her, she’d prepared for that as far as she could, but if she had to appeal to Hollingsworth, she just hoped he would remember her name. After all, for him it had been ten years since he had attended her wedding.

The lawyer supposedly only took cases anymore if they interested him, but Verity believed Karat and her predicament would hook him once he heard. It might be enough to mention the woman’s husband’s name, if he and Hollingsworth had been old friends as Karat thought. But Verity had to get a chance to talk to the man first.

She herself remained skeptical—not so much of Karat’s belief that the lawyer would help her out for the sake of her husband, as this idea that somebody was spying on the woman. Still, Verity had taken a circuitous route from New York City to Burnt Ash—they’d also stayed at cheap motels where they could pay cash and use fake names.

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