Clear Expectations (Mary O'Reilly Paranormal Mystery #20) by Terri Reid

Author:Terri Reid [Reid, Terri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Paranormal Mystery, Requested, Published 2017

Chapter Forty-one

Bradley parked behind Alex, and they both exited their vehicles at the same time. Alex waited for Bradley.

“I got an interesting phone call,” Bradley said. “Some representatives from a pharma company in Milwaukee stopped by City Hall about ten minutes after I left. The Mayor has been looking for me ever since.”

Alex shook his head. “Don’t you just love politics?” he replied sarcastically.

They entered Mary’s office, and she stood and walked over to greet them.

Alex enfolded her in a hug. “You look amazing,” he said.

“Thank you,” she replied with a smile. “You don’t look too bad yourself.”

Alex looked over his shoulder to Bradley. “If I had only met her first,” he said.

Bradley grinned. “You did meet her first,” he said. “She was just so not interested.”

Shocked, Alex turned back to Mary. “I don’t believe that,” he said. “Did we meet before you met Bradley?”

“No,” she replied. “We did not.” She glanced to Bradley and shook her head. “But, even though you are a very handsome man, my heart was only meant for Bradley.”

Sighing dramatically, he walked across the room, slipped off his overcoat and hung it on a coat rack. “I suppose I can see that,” he said, walking over to Mary’s desk. “And someday I’ll be able to reconcile myself to it.”

Mary laughed. “Yeah, I bet your heart’s broken,” she teased as she walked over to her chair and sat down. Then she looked up. “Oh, I’m sorry. Can I get you anything? Water? Soda?”

“I’ll get it,” Bradley offered before Mary could stand up again. He walked to the back of her office and opened the small fridge. “What would you like?”

“Water for me,” Mary said.

“Me too,” Alex added, taking a seat across from her.

With waters in hand, Bradley came back across the room, shrugged off his jacket and sat down.

“So, what do you have?” Mary asked.

“A very nervous CEO who has been receiving payments for space that hasn’t been used for more than twenty years,” Alex began. “And a nurse who wants us to believe that she didn’t know the drugs she was giving the children caused side effects.”

“But asked to have her lawyer present the moment she walked into the CEO’s office,” Bradley added.

“I actually feel sorry for her,” Mary said. “She’s been living with this hanging over her head for years, just waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

“We have data, thanks to the helpful CEO, that records payments all the way back to the nineties,” Bradley said. “For the rental of the back unit.”

“Wow. Good work,” Mary said.

“So, what do you have?” Alex asked.

“I went over to the county offices, and Linda helped me find an old DCFS file that was labeled the Baker’s Dozen,” Mary said.

“Baker’s Dozen?” Alex asked.

“That’s what the children said there were called,” Mary replied.

Alex paused for a long moment and finally spoke. “The dead children told you what they were called,” he said slowly.

“Well, not actually,” Mary replied.

Alex exhaled evenly and nodded. “Okay, good,” he said.

“They told Clarissa and Maggie what they were called,” she added.

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