David Wolf 01 - Foreign Deceit by Jeff Carson

Author:Jeff Carson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Cross Atlantic Publishing
Published: 2013-10-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

As they exited the main room to the stairway to hell, a voice called from across the room, “Lia, David!” Rossi put his phone to his ear, said a quick goodbye to someone, and waved them over. “What are you guys doing?”

They explained the situation to Rossi as quickly as possible. He stopped them numerous times, asking them to expand on points, and go over others again before egging them on for more details. Finally, he looked to Wolf with folded arms and a furrowed brow. “Okay, so what are you going to do at the observatory?”

Wolf was taken aback by the question, “Well, we’re going to get the real story from this son of a bitch, Vlad. He’s hiding something from us about Friday night.”

“What did you and Marino just talk about, Lia?”

“Uh, he was wondering about what was happening.” She glanced at Wolf, then the desk.

“And?” Rossi asked.

“He said … he said that David’s brother would be released tomorrow, and he wanted him out of the picture.” She pointed at Wolf.

Wolf stood still, not reacting.

“David,” Rossi glanced to Marino’s closed door, “we have to be careful about your next moves. Your brother’s remains are released tomorrow, that means you can get the belt with the belongings, right?”

“Yeah, I guess,” Wolf said. “When will the body be released?”

“Marino said first thing in the morning,” Lia said. “Then he wants to talk to you after that, to try and persuade you to go home … cooperatively.”

“I’ll go home cooperatively when I find out who killed my brother. And it’s looking like Vlad had a hand in this whole thing.”

“David, let me finish.” Rossi put his hand on Wolf’s shoulder and stepped closer. “Marino has pressure from higher ranking officials to make this situation go away. They don’t like that a police force from another country is coming in and helping with a closed investigation. I know that is not what is happening,” he said quickly, “I’m just telling you what Marino must be thinking about right now behind that closed door. It’s important that we do this right. Right now you have the testimony from a worker at an observatory that he didn’t see your brother the night of his death. That’s it. He could be telling the truth, he could have been locked in his office the entire night, never seeing a single soul outside of his office. However, if you had the belt, and we could show that it was Vlad’s somehow, then we actually have a piece of evidence. Or we need to find Matthew, which Paulo is working on right now, like you said. But right now, you are just risking some sort of ugly international incident if you go over there right now.”

Wolf took a deep breath. “So what do you propose I do instead?”

“Eat,” Rossi said with zero hesitation.

“What?”

Rossi touched both of them on the arm, “You and Lia come to my house, this second, and have an excellent meal with my family. We will talk this out, on full stomachs!”

Wolf stared at Rossi’s motionless bug eyes and broke a smile.

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