The Drazen World: FALL (Kindle Worlds Novella) by K NILSSON

Author:K NILSSON [NILSSON, K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Eileen Drazen

Declan summoned me to his office at the end of the day and sent a driver to fetch me.

I was stopped for a DUI two years ago, and my license was taken away. Margie worked out a plea bargain with the DA so that I wouldn’t lose my license forever.

Declan stood behind his desk and greeted me with a tumbler of scotch. He pointed to the chair facing him.

I didn’t take the glass. I sighed. My husband knew I hated scotch, and I knew he hated vodka. “Why did you want to see me, Declan?”

He led me to the conference table. Photos were all over it. I glanced at the table, then back at the door, trying to decide if I should make a run for it. Were they incriminating photos of uber trips to the or worse, accepting home deliveries of Stoli?

“These landed in my hands this morning.” He stepped away from the desk and went to look out the window, taking a familiar stance.

I looked at the first few pictures, clasping my hands to my chest, my mouth wide open. “My beautiful daughter!”

“Our daughter,” he corrected firmly.

“What are these?” I was hysterical. There was no way a mother could take seeing such photos calmly. They twisted my gut like a serrated knife, each one creating a new rip.

Declan told me he'd had Carrie under surveillance, for her protection, ever since she disappeared last week. A PI hired by Margie located her, and she was under his protection until yesterday.

She was taken."

“When were you going to tell me?” I asked.

Declan threw up his hands "I was going to tell you as soon as we knew something ... but we don't know much, just that he is unhinged. This video was sent to my cell phone today."

He swiped the screen on his phone. I was watching a horror film featuring my baby. I wailed. Declan pulled me to his chest and patted my back. After a few minutes, I settled down enough to ask, "How did he know your name?"

Declan didn’t respond.

“You know!” It came out like an accusation because it was. He knew.

“Who? Tell me!” I demanded.

“Relax Eileen. I’m not completely certain, but I’ve sent out feelers. I’m going to sit on those until I get a definite answer.”

“What’s the problem?”

“This person has been in hiding for a very long time. I don’t know if he’s alive or dead.”

“He knows you Declan!”

“It could be anyone Eileen. I’ve done things I’m not proud of, things you’ll never know about, so don’t ask me.”

“Goddamit Declan.”

He didn’t sound hopeful. It seemed as if it was a shot- in-the-dark.

“How about Margie, does she know about the feelers? The detectives, do they?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“I told you. I’m not sure who it is. IF find out… I’ll tell them.”

Then, Declan held me at arm's length away and squinted at me. "When was the last time you spoke to her?"

Inwardly, I cringed because the last time I’d talked to Carrie, the conversation ended in an argument.

"I forget.

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