The Guardian & Her Captain: Agatha & Bonnie, a story of hate and love by B.L. Wilson

Author:B.L. Wilson [Wilson, B.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-02T07:00:00+00:00

Agatha didn’t have time to wait for crayons, markers, or post-it notes. Instead, she folded papers at the point-of-interest sentences. She dog-eared important pages at the top and bottom. The more pages she read, the more interested she became looking for that one- or two-sentence explanation connecting her birthday with her death. She walked around the table reading minutes aloud to herself. Frederick kept arguing throughout the minutes, something about some clause. How he didn’t want to enforce it. He said he’d check with his lawyers about a workaround. He kept putting off his board while he claimed his lawyers were trying a workaround. He said there had to be a way around this clause. His father and his grandfather found workarounds. He thought he could too.

“What’s in the clause? Where was that clause?” Agatha stopped walking around the table to ask. “Where are you? I know I saw it. Why can’t I find you, huh?”

Bonnie walked back down the basement stairs and groaned as soon as she spotted the table covered in the pages from the board minutes and notes. Then she sighed, watching Agatha sort through the papers, muttering and tossing papers up in the air as she searched for something. She thought how her lieutenant looked bat shit crazy. Agatha reminded her of a homeless street person speaking and sometimes fighting an invisible somebody that nobody could see.

“Aggie, Sweetie, sit down and catch your breath.” She walked over to Agatha and reached out to rub her arms. Then she tilted Agatha’s chin, caressing it gently. “Look at me, Sweetie. Tell me what you’re trying to do.”

Agatha’s eyebrow flew up as she studied her captain. She ran her hands through her hair, making it stand on end and adding to the insane effect. “I swear, I’m not crazy, Smithy. I read it somewhere. There’s a clause in these papers. I need to find it. It’s the key to everything. I’m sure it explains why my sister’s death and my death are so important to him.”

Bonnie nodded. “All right. Let’s get you settled down.” She guided Agatha to the nearest folding chair and pressed sturdy shoulders down, forcing her to sit in it. “That’s good, Sweetie.” Then she pulled up a chair so close, they were touching knees. She reached over to squeeze Agatha’s knees. “Talk to me. Keep talking until I understand your point.”

Agatha inhaled deeply and then exhaled. She scratched her head. “All right, here goes.” She pointed to the papers scattered on the floor and table. “Somewhere in all this mess is one or two paragraphs that mention how my sister and I have the right to claim everything before we reach the age of forty. Soon as we reached our fortieth birthday, everything reverts to our birth father.”

“Why not get rid of you any time before you reached forty?”

Agatha rose from the chair and started walking and talking. “What if she just found out and wanted to warn me? What if he knew that she

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