Love Betrayed by Celya Bowers

Author:Celya Bowers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Celya Bowers
Published: 2020-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

12

Maddie walked into office and stopped cold. There was a youngish African American man sitting in her lobby, obviously waiting for her. “Hello, Renay. Sorry, I’m late.”

Renay smiled at her. “I’m sure you have an excellent reason for your tardiness. Mr. Smith,” she said, pointing to the impeccably dressed man sitting in on the leather couch,” has been waiting to see you. He didn’t have an appointment, but said it was urgent that he speak with you today.” She waited a beat. “It’s about DJ.”

Great, she thought, more bad news about my brother. “Sure, come in, Mr. Smith.” She doubted that was his real name and hoped she lived long enough to tell someone about this visit.

He rose and followed her into her office. Maddie hurried to her desk, put away her purse and briefcase, and pushing the button under her desk, to activate the tape recorder. She motioned for him to sit down. He closed the door, then walked to one of the chairs in front of her desk. “Nice office,” he said as he sat down.

She didn’t want to waste valuable time on small talk. “You wanted to see me?”

“Yes, I did, Ms. Bradford.”

“Okay.”

“My name is Allen Smith and I’m with the Drug Enforcement Agency and I’d like to discuss your brother David Bradford, Jr. commonly known as DJ.”

“What about him?” She wished this man would just spit it out and get on with the bad news.

“When was the last time you saw him in person? Not a phone call or a text, but physically?”

She had to think about that. Their normal form of communication was text message. “Probably closer to a month. He stopped by my place for about ten minutes.”

“Is that normal?”

“For him, yes. DJ dropped in and out of our lives. He would call out of the blue and announced he was coming over.”

“Were you aware that he has been out of the country eight times in the last six months.”

She laughed. “How? He doesn’t have a passport. He doesn’t even have a job.”

“Oh yes ma’am. According to our records, he has had a passport for the last eight years.”

“How? Does your records show where he went?”

“Yes, he’s been to Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Nicaragua.”

“Wow! He’s been to that many places.” So much about her brother didn’t make sense. Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity. “Are you sure it was him? Maybe it was someone who looked like him and took his identity.”

“No, we have positive ID. And according to a witness, he was out of the country on the dates we have. It’s him.”

“So, Agent Smith, what do you want from me?”

“Tell me if you hear from him. It’s vitally important.”

Maddie felt like he was leaving a whole lot out of the equation and she wanted to know just how much trouble her brother was in. “You want me to snitch on my brother?”

“I want you to save your brother from certain death. Which is what will happen if we don’t locate him quickly.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.