Revenge of the Cube Dweller by Joanne Fox Phillips

Author:Joanne Fox Phillips [Phillips, Joanne Fox]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-938416-94-1
Publisher: River Grove Books
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The Sunday morning call from Lucy rings right on schedule, and I am in a heavy terry bathrobe sipping coffee on my balcony. Our conversation turns immediately to the explosion and how Lucy has known all along that “those people” I’m working for are evil.

“I’m beginning to agree with you,” I tell her, and I explain that my friends were casualties and what I have found in the files so far.

“What else do you have?” she asks after I tell her about reviewing the LEAR folders.

“I don’t know. I haven’t been through everything yet. This has all been really fast.”

“Why don’t you send me what you have and I’ll take a look?” Lucy offers.

I hesitate. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to send the files over the Internet, Lucy. I’m trying to be very careful. Taking those files was illegal, and I really don’t want to take a chance, even a remote chance, that anything gets traced back to me.”

What I don’t tell her is that I know my sister better than myself. She is an environmental fanatic who is likely to include kindred spirits on our communication if she isn’t under careful supervision. While I’m fairly sure that Lucy would not do anything without my consent, I am not comfortable sending incriminating files to someone who thinks jail time is a badge of honor when it’s for holding up environmental principles. The temptation might be too much for her.

Still, Lucy is brilliant. As Uncle Agamemnon summed up one day, “Tanzie smart, Lucy smarter.” A painful but true assessment, I have to admit. She has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Cal Tech and a master’s degree in environmental sciences from Stanford. In her younger days, before venturing out into the world of colored cotton and sheep, Lucy worked in the oilfields wearing a hazmat suit that now doubles as her beekeeping outfit. She would no doubt be an excellent source of help in figuring out what other mayhem besides blowing up sleeping Houstonians the Bishop boys are covering up.

“How about coming to Tulsa, Lucy? We can work on this together. I haven’t seen you in ages.”

“I told you before, I have sheep issues,” she starts, but she almost immediately reverses course. “But I’ll make it work, somehow. I can only stay for a couple of days, though. Can you pay for the flight, Tanzie? I have zero cash at the moment.”

Her sudden enthusiasm to leave her beloved farm gives me pause. It is common knowledge in our family that Lucy rarely travels anymore. In her middle age she has become neurotic about food and prefers to control every bit of what she eats by growing it herself. She is hugely suspicious of mass-produced food and convinced that the genetically modified varieties are the reason for the obesity and bad health of most Americans. On her farm she grows or raises just about every morsel she eats. She even grows her own wheat for flour and churns her own butter.

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