Buried Curses by Matthew Barron

Author:Matthew Barron [Barron, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction; horror; fantasy; adventure; mystery; detective; paranormal; myth; legend; action; artifacts; mesopotamia; pulp
Publisher: Submatter Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I left the mosque and checked my phone. The phone call hadn’t been from Luis. It had been Diane. I looked up Rabbi Benaiah Chesniak. He taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. For such an unassuming fellow, he had a long list of PhDs.

I returned Diane’s call.

“How is the case going?” she asked.

“I’ve run around and talked to a lot of people, but all I’ve really learned is that Anderson is a creep, which I already knew.”

“Well, you must be ruffling some feathers. An FBI agent came to the office asking about you.”

“Wow, I must have really pissed them off in the evidence room.”

“What did you do, Jack?”

“Don’t say it like that! It’s like you expect me to screw up.”

“No, but I know how you can be a smartass at the worst times.”

“Well, this time it wasn’t that. I saw something they didn’t, and now they think I’m crazy.”

“What did you see?”

“Apparently I had a conversation with an invisible man in their locked evidence room.”

Diane remained quiet for a moment. “Maybe the man had gotten into the room somehow without being seen.”

“Luis and an FBI agent were with me when I had this whole conversation, and they didn’t see a thing.”

Diane became silent again.

“You think I’m crazy too.”

“I’ve always known you were crazy, Jack. That’s part of your charm. This is a little weird though, even for you.”

If she thought I was weird now, I wondered how Diane would react if she knew the whole story about my missing nine years. “What did the agent ask about me?”

“Mostly character questions, like how well I knew you, what kind of person you are, how your work ethic is, if you like to travel.”

“That’s all?”

“They wanted to know what specific cases you’d worked on, but I told them they’d need a warrant for that kind of information.”

I knew Wittman thought I was crazy and maybe even a jerk, but I was surprised he considered me worth sending someone to conduct interviews. They’d already run an extensive background check on me.

“There’s something else I wanted to talk about, Jack. Meega still isn’t eating.”

“Still! I shouldn’t have left her so soon after the incident with Animal Control.”

“I’m taking her to the vet tomorrow.”

“You think it’s a physical illness? She always eats less when I leave town.”

“It’s probably nothing, Jack, but I’d rather be sure.”

“Save the bill. I’ll reimburse you when I’m back in town.”

“It’s alright, Jack. This is for my own piece of mind more than anything. I’m sure it’s nothing, but I wanted to let you know.”

“Thanks, Diane. Meega and Alpha are my family. They consider you and Reece family too. I know they’re in good hands.”

I dreaded calling Luis, but I had to tell him I’d be gone overnight. Considering I had never told him I was coming here in the first place, that wasn’t going to sit well.

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