Deadly Additive by Donn Taylor

Author:Donn Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian fiction
ISBN: 9781611161861
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2012-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

18

When Sledge and Kristin left the interview, he felt that he’d cleared the last hurdle in a long and grueling race. All he had to do now was deliver her to Steve Spinner in New Orleans and draw his pay. Then he’d be free again.

The attendant who’d guided them to the interview led them through several back corridors to the main concourse and then to the gate where their New Orleans flight stood ready to depart.

“Your luggage is already on board,” he said. He turned and left without another word.

“I kind of liked Roger Brinkman,” Kristin said as they belted into their first-class seats, “but that Novak character gives me the creeps.”

“He’s spooky, all right,” Sledge agreed. “I thought he’d try to prove we were liars, but he turned out reasonable enough. We can’t talk about it here, though. We’d better plan our meeting with your father, Jocelyn.” He hoped his overemphasis of the name would point Kristin’s thinking in the right direction. They had to continue the masquerade because they didn’t know how Steve Spinner would react to Sledge’s catching on to the identity switch.

“I’d rather think about anything else,” Kristin said.

That thought cast a pall over conversation, but Sledge presently found an opening. “What will you do after we…uh…meet your father?”

Kristin made a face. “Leave as soon as I can, I guess. When I’m near that man, I feel like something bad is going to happen at any moment. He’s been so mean to—to—the woman I was with in Colombia.”

“You won’t stay around to help her?” Sledge found he was curious about that friendship.

Kristin shook her head. “I’d only complicate the decisions she has to make about herself and her father. Besides, I have to write my stories. They’re the reason I went to Colombia.”

Red flags went up in Sledge’s mind. “You won’t forget what the man in Miami told us?”

She gave him a hard look. “I have enough to write without that. Shouldn’t we have told Mr. Spinner we’re coming?”

Her change of subject was emphatic, so Sledge went along with it. “I thought it was better this way.” He wouldn’t put it beyond Spinner to have his goons take Kristin away from him. Then Spinner could refuse to pay on grounds that Sledge hadn’t finished the job. In any case, he’d come too far to take chances now.

At Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans they recovered Kristin’s luggage and took a taxi to Steve Spinner’s downtown offices. Sledge took his light carry-on with him. Kristin’s face showed a tight-lipped tension, and Sledge’s temper rose as he remembered his other meeting with Spinner. Governed by that mood, he barged into Spinner’s outer office more abruptly than he intended.

He faced a startled brunette receptionist whose name sign said she was Yvette Dijon. She looked up in alarm, first at him and then at Kristin.

“Is something wrong?” Kristin asked.

“Not…not really,” the girl said. “But you look so much like the lady that was here yesterday.”

Kristin’s face lined with worry. “Isn’t she here now?”

“No.

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