The Jack Reacher Cases_A Man Made For Killing by Dan Ames

Author:Dan Ames [Ames, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Pauling walked into the kitchen, opened the fridge and saw a bottle of white wine with a cork in it. She filled a glass three quarters full and walked to the picture window in the living area.

Outside, she saw Janey sitting on the picnic bench looking out at the ocean. Pauling saw an opportunity because if Paige had talked to anyone out here it would've been a woman. And if Paige had been friends with Janey, Janey would be the perfect resource to get more information.

Pauling opened the door, stepped outside and felt the cool ocean breeze, tasted the salt in the air. It had rained earlier in the day and now the grass was wet and the sky had a tinge of orange from the early day shower.

“Mind if I join you?" Pauling asked.

Janey turned and looked at her. She had an odd expression on her face as if she'd been thinking about something that had deeply upset her.

"No, no problem," Janey said.

Pauling took her glass and sat on the picnic table next to Janey. She didn't say anything, just joined her and looked out toward the water.

"I just saw a great white shark make a snack out of a sea lion," Janey said, her tone very matter-of-fact.

"Does that happen very often?” Pauling asked. “Early evening they start feeding, right?”

"Oh, it happens all the time but you’re lucky to see it. Then again, you see a lot of things out here,” Janey said.

Pauling wondered what she meant by that. She noticed Janey had a glass of wine in her hand, too.

"Did you know Paige Jones very well?" Pauling asked.

Janey laughed.

"You aren't really here to look at our computer systems, are you?" Janey said.

"Well, I am collecting data if that's what you're asking," Pauling said.

Janey laughed again. "Okay," she said.

Pauling saw a dark shadow pass about 600 feet from the shore. It cruised slowly and at first she thought it was a school of fish and then her breath caught in her throat.

"Is that the shark?"

"It sure is."

Pauling watched as the shadow slowly disappeared.

"I didn't know Paige very well, actually," Janey said, finally answering the question. "We talked occasionally being the only women here at the Nest. But we were both very private people and the conversations never really got too personal."

"Did you see anything out of the ordinary? Anything that made you think somebody would have wanted to hurt Paige?"

Janey shook her head. "No. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary," she said. "But honestly, everything out here is abnormal. This is an unusual place. I mean, think about it. A group of people obsessed with a tiny bird. Academics, really, who spent most of their lives with their noses in thick textbooks studying arcane patterns of wildlife.” As she talked, she gestured with the wineglass in her hand. “And now, out here, they’re surrounded by men who, for the most part, have a very basic education but extensive knowledge of how to kill people, shoot guns, blow things up and make their enemies disappear.

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