The Count of Carolina (A Clean Up Crew Thriller Book 2) by S. J. Varengo

Author:S. J. Varengo [Varengo, S. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Northern Lake Publishing
Published: 2018-09-03T22:00:00+00:00

13

We Leave the Best Eggs to Hatch on Their Own

“I don’t suppose I have to tell you how nervous it makes me when you say things like that, right?” Dan asked his wife.

“Like what?” Nicole, adopting the Socratic method, answered a question with a question.

“Like you just spent an hour telling us about your super-twisted father, and the fact that he pimped you out for almost seven years, and you conclude that absolutely heart-pureeing story by saying, ‘Now to the real conversation.’ What the hell was all of that? Fake conversation?”

“I think in Hollywood, they call it ‘the backstory.’”

J.J., quiet during the exchange, now cut in. “Daddy, from what Mom told me earlier, I get that you’re good in the clutch. But you really, really seem to suck at the mental parts of this gig.”

“‘This gig?’ Now you’re going to start talking like a beatnik?”

“What’s a beatnik?” J.J. asked, forgetting for a moment that she was chastising her father.

“Never mind,” Nicole said. “J.J., it’s you I need to talk to now anyway.”

“I do not like the direction this conversation is going,” Dan grumbled.

Nicole and J.J. both turned to face him and simultaneously shouted, “Please!” The mirror imagery stunned him into silence.

“After my last briefing with Gail, I started to piece things together a little bit, and the conclusions I reached were pretty disturbing.” Nicole hesitated as she recalled the streams of consciousness that had commenced when she realized that she didn’t feel comfortable completing the mission based on the evidence she had to this point. She had felt that the diverse vignettes, which, taken on face value, didn’t really make sense, began to come into focus when viewed as related snippets of a bigger picture.

“Let me try to lay it out for you in some sort of order. First, Darlene sniffs out some very unsubstantiated reports of misdeeds by a doctor serving as a school athletic trainer. She dug deep enough to find a couple of suppressed police reports and felt like it was worth looking into. Based on the same information that I have now, she decided to call for a cleaning on him. But while she’s actively assaulting the official government networks of the Greater Greenville area, somebody notices. Now all of this I’m relatively sure of. This next section moves us into the realm of speculation.

“Somehow, the anti-hackers made a connection to CUC. And from there, they somehow made a connection to me.”

“Why, though, Mom? I don’t understand the mental gymnastics there.”

“Believe it or not, J.J., I think it might have come down to a roll of the great cosmic dice. Because somehow the man I came here to clean is connected with Conrad Barker, who after of long enough period of still waking up alive had passed had to figure getting rid of me before I could get him was the best plan. Whatever that missing link is between the person or persons who caught Darlene poking around and the realization by Conrad that I might

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