Tess and Tilly 09 - The Puppy Project by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

When Tilly and I arrived at my cabin, we found Tony sitting at the dining table we’d decided to donate to the garage sale the women’s auxiliary at the church held every summer, staring at his laptop. He didn’t even look up when we walked in, which seemed to indicate he was deep in thought. I hung the backpack I used like a purse on the peg, slipped off my shoes, and then walked across the room so that I was standing beside him.

“So what has you so enthralled?” I asked.

He glanced up at me with an expression of surprise, which seemed to indicate he’d just noticed I was there. “You’re home.”

“I am.” I nodded toward the computer. “What’s up?”

“I think I may have found one of the women on the list I received from your dad or the person pretending to be him.” He pointed to the screen. “The name she goes by now is Betty Weston. The name she used when she worked for Henderson was Linnea Karlsson.”

“Are you sure it’s her?” I sat down across from Tony. The woman on the screen had sandy blond hair and appeared to be around twenty. She had blue eyes and strong features. If I had to guess, she was close to six feet tall with broad shoulders and a lean body. In spite of her size, she looked timid and afraid. As if she wished she could simply recoil into her body and hide.

“Actually no, I’m not sure it’s her. The name on the list I was sent is Linnea Karlsson. The photo on the screen is of a woman named Linnea Karlsson taken in nineteen seventy-seven. Linnea started working at Layton Henderson’s store in Germany in nineteen seventy-six. Like Star’s mother, Ivana, Linnea was transferred from Henderson’s import/export store in Germany to a plant in Hungary, and like Ivana, she became pregnant shortly after the transfer.”

“So Henderson was recruiting female employees of his legit import/export business to become baby factories for his human engineering experiments.”

“That’s the way it looks at this point. The email I received from the person who started this whole thing, told me that Linnea would have given birth in September of nineteen seventy-eight. Linnea seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth after running away from Layton, but the individual I’ve been communicating with, who may or may not be your dad, sent me this photo.” The photo was a blurry black and white photo of what looked to be the same woman Tony had first shown me on his computer screen. “Instructions to find her current whereabouts and report back to him were included with the photo.”

“They do look as if they could be the same person.”

“I ran a facial recognition program that matched the two photos and came up with this.” He pulled up a third photo. It was of a woman who looked similar to the woman in the first photo, but she had short brown hair peppered with gray and looked to be around sixty.

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