Jackson by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773361116
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2019-02-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Deli worked away in the kitchen, making sandwiches. There hadn’t been a whole lot of choice otherwise. But, with the men talking cheerfully behind her, and everybody pulling together as a team, she managed to create enough sandwiches to fill them up. She carried a large cutting board into the living room and set it down on the coffee table. The men stared at the stack she had created and cried out in joy.

“Oh, wow, there’s enough to feed us,” Kanen said. “Hey, Jackson, she’s a keeper.”

Expecting some snappy response back, she was surprised when she glanced over at Jackson’s face to see a thunderous frown as he glared at his friend. Kanen, on the other hand, had a big smirk on his face as he picked up a sandwich closest to him. It was obviously an inside joke. She wasn’t sure what it would take to become an insider herself, but she was happy to be included at this point and to help solve this nightmare.

James still caused her distress when she thought about him. She knew it was stupid. She didn’t even know him that well. But to think he’d been involved somehow and then had died for something he’d done, it was just difficult to process. She really wanted to make sure Max stayed safe. Not to mention Jackson and Kanen.

As she ate a sandwich, she studied the wall full of Jackson’s pictures of family and friends. “Are we considering what military groups and teams they might be on?” she asked.

Jackson looked at her and frowned. “Such as?”

“Clubs, sports competitions, that kind of stuff. You know? The base is a whole city in itself. What about medical? It’s not that they’d be part of a club, but they could have used the same doctor. For all you know, one of them managed to see a specialist and the other didn’t, or one got something paid for that the other didn’t. Same for education,” she said. “I know James was trying to get training to work higher.”

“What do you mean by higher?”

“Literally. Higher. He wanted to work on helicopters. But he was a truck mechanic.”

“So then you’re suggesting maybe somebody else also wanted to be a helicopter mechanic and may have gotten there before him?” Kanen asked doubtfully.

“No, I mean, maybe somebody else got funding that he didn’t get. Maybe the other guy doesn’t even know anything about him. Maybe James just got pissed off and said something to the wrong guy, or said that, you know, the other guy didn’t deserve it. Who knows?”

“I would admit that something like that is definitely possible if we were talking about only one murder,” Kanen explained. “It just seems like a stretch, considering all the scenarios.”

“Let’s think back to that day when I pulled into the truck stop and somebody shot the vehicle I was driving,” Jackson said. “That seemed very targeted. I highly doubt anybody knew I would be driving it. So it was either targeted at Chester, who is dead, or it was random.

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