The Secret of Hunter's Bog by Ally Blue

Author:Ally Blue [Blue, Ally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2016-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

In the end, he found a few other things missing: the DVR player and plasma-screen TV from his bedroom, the speakers from the extra bedroom he used as a library now—though not the rest of his high-end sound system, he noticed—and, weirdly, an old hand-penned journal he’d found in the attic as a child, when he and Kimmy had been poking around looking for treasure. It was written in French, which he couldn’t read, so he had no idea what was in it, but he’d kept it because he’d thought it was cool.

Evidently someone else had agreed so much that they’d stolen it.

“It bugs me,” he told Will as the two of them reshelved his books. “Not so much because the journal’s gone, but because that’s what they took. You know? I mean, who takes something like that, unless they already know something about it?”

“I see your point.” Will eased a ragged paperback copy of Dune into its place, then sat cross-legged on the floor, looking thoughtful. “But why would an expert on old French journals rob your house? If they knew you had it and they wanted it, why wouldn’t they just ask if they could buy it?”

“Same reason other people steal shit. ’Cause they don’t want to pay for it.” Koichi sat beside Will, feeling nervous and defeated. “I gotta be honest, this is freaking me out a little. I can’t help feeling like all the mess and the missing TVs and stuff are just a distraction.”

Will cast him a sharp glance. “You think they were really after the journal or the perfume bottle all along.”

It wasn’t a question. Maybe this was a strange time for warm fuzzies, but Koichi sort of liked how Will’s thoughts were so in sync with his own.

He nodded. “I think they might’ve stolen the other stuff and wrecked the place to cover up what they were really after and make it look like a normal robbery.”

Will’s expression turned grave. “We need to figure out who might’ve known those things were worth money.”

“That’s just it, though. No one would have known the perfume bottle even existed, other than our family. Grammy gave each of her grandkids one bottle out of her set of five. We have them, but we don’t exactly advertise.”

“And the journal?”

Koichi shrugged. “I found it in this house ages ago, when me and Kimmy were kids and we were playing in the attic. I never even told anyone but her and Grammy. I asked Grammy if I could keep it and she said I could. She said she didn’t know where it came from, and she didn’t want it. And who knows if it’s even worth a damn dime?”

“It must be, or they wouldn’t have stolen it.”

“Good point.”

Will’s brows drew together. He sucked on his bottom lip, his eyes unfocused. “So what we have here, aside from the missing electronics, is a stolen perfume bottle and a stolen journal written in French, neither of which anyone outside your family ought to know you had, and only one of which is worth anything as far as you know.

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