Fallout by K.C. Hunter

Author:K.C. Hunter [Lightfoot, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lulu Press

Chapter 3 An End and A Beginning

Things, legally speaking, went as Dorsey had predicted. The children got their clothes and personal effects. They also got most of the objects they said had been given to them as Christmas presents, mainly due to Bob’s insistence he had heard Alexander and Samantha giving these gifts. He said it was a ‘tradition’ in that household to let each child chose one object from the house as an extra gift at Christmas, but the item stayed in the house until the parents were ready to part with it. The idea, he explained, was so there would be no fighting over inheritance as each person already owned their objects.

Rafferty got his two large ‘birthday gifts’; a painting by a famous artist and Fabergé Egg, but Suzi did not get her valuable antique vase. Rafi did manage to hold onto his two-seater sports car, which he exchanged for a more practical jeep and a fistful of cash.

Bob sold the items for them at auction and the amount raised would fund their yacht adventure for at least a year, giving them time to make it into a business that paid its own way.

The computer was a bigger problem. The creditors refused to let it go, which seemed odd. They did offer to buy another for Jasper, and the question ended up before a judge in record time. Jasper was magnificent, he broke down saying it was the last thing he and his father had done together and a new computer wasn’t the same. He said the work and photos on it had mostly been done together, and even the placement of photos held a memory for him now his father was gone. A new one was only a machine he pleaded, whereas this was part of his history with his father, and having lost his father, he couldn’t lose that too...

He fell to the ground, weak from desperation and the judge gave him the computer. The barrage of lawyers fighting this could do no more, try though they did.

The effort the creditors put into trying to hold onto the computer gave everyone hope that there was something on it that would hold clues to something important.

Jasper immediately handed it over to Dorsey. A team of experts went over it thoroughly and found nothing out of the ordinary, which only raised even more questions about the creditors’ strong need to get it. Questions destined to go unanswered.

The analysis of the liquid in the garage showed it was brake fluid, so the accident was ruled just that, an accident.

No money, contracts or information about the deal was found, and the creditors looked set to get the house, business and everything else – except for the yacht. Dorsey kept filing additional requests to prolong the hand over as long as possible.

The funeral was held, Alexander and Samantha Harrington were mourned and life went on.

Jasper went back to finish school, and now he had an added incentive, he actually did quite well in his exams, despite his sorrow.

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