Skin in the Game by D P Lyle

Author:D P Lyle [Lyle, D P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578516950
Publisher: Suspense Publishing
Published: 2019-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

As soon as they got back into the molasses that is Nashville traffic, Cain’s cell pinged an incoming text. Kelly Whitt. Cindy’s roommate:

HAVE INFO ON ADAM. HEADING INTO CLASS. CALL ME AT 1 PM.

They reached the condo before noon. While Harper unpacked her bag, flipped on the Keurig and made them coffee, Cain called Mama B and brought her up to date.

“Let me guess,” she said. “Kessler wants this rectified.”

Rectified. The perfect word. “Exactly.”

“So we’re in full attack mode now?” Mama B asked.

“You got it.”

“One thing—does Kessler know I’m involved?”

“No. I figure it’s best if he doesn’t,” Cain said.

“I agree. I don’t think he’d have a problem but I appreciate being off the radar on this one.”

“Of course, he probably suspects you’re lurking somewhere,” Cain said.

“Lurking’s what I do best.”

“I might have a line on Adam Parker.” Cain told her of Kelly’s text. “Hopefully later today.”

“I’m going to send you a couple of things. A link with your pimp daddy contact info. What name do you want to use?”

“William Faulkner.”

“Always the jokester.”

“And we’ll see how well educated he is.”

“I love it. Simply send the link to his phone, it’ll add you to his contacts, and I’ll be inside.”

“Meaning?”

“I can tap his phone. Listen and record all his conversations and texts. Even if his phone’s off.”

“That’ll help.”

“The other thing is a link to the new site. Have him log on with his computer to see what you’re all about, check out your girls, that sort of thing, and I’ll be inside his motherboard. Same access.”

“You’re amazing.”

“That I am. There’re a dozen other ways I could access his electronics, but these will be easy and clean.”

“I’ll get on it when I meet with him.”

“Later.”

Cain dropped on the sofa. He told Harper the plan.

“So now we wait,” she said. “Any idea what Kelly has for us?”

Cain shook his head. He checked his watch. 12:30. “Guess we’ll know soon.”

Mama B’s email arrived. Cain checked it. He added William Faulkner to his own contacts so he could feed it to Adam Parker. He then bookmarked the URL for the site.

At exactly one p.m., he called Kelly.

“You got my text,” she said. “Good.”

“Where are you?”

“Just got back to my apartment.”

“Are you alone?”

“Yes, why?”

“You better sit down.”

“No. Please don’t tell me something’s happened to Cindy.”

Cain sighed. “Unfortunately, something did happen. She was murdered.”

“What? Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

“Who? How?”

“Better you don’t know.”

“But…”

“Kelly, listen to me. We’re going to try to keep all this out of the public eye, for as long as we can. You might hear about the murder on the news but the victim will hopefully be unidentified. It’s Cindy, but we don’t want to create any hysteria. It’ll make the cop’s job harder. Mine, too.”

Kelly broke down. Cain let her get it out, though hearing her anguish wasn’t easy.

“I don’t understand any of this,” Kelly said.

“You will. Later. But right now, this information can go no further. Understand?”

Silence.

“No one. Not another person. Okay?”

“Jesus, this is so hard.”

“I know. But you’ll be fine. It just takes time.

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