Lake on the Mountain: A Dan Sharp Mystery by Jeffrey Round

Author:Jeffrey Round [Round, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance MM, erotic MM
ISBN: 9781459700017
Amazon: 1459700015
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-02-20T11:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

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Saylor called again the following week. Given his increasing involvement in the case, Dan wasn’t surprised to hear from the Picton cop a second time. He listened patiently while Saylor updated him. He was exhibiting all the symptoms of over-zealous determination, including tracking the girl’s whereabouts before her death. The long arm of the law reaching out beyond the grave.

“By the way, are you still talking to those people?” Saylor asked.

“The Killingworths?”

“Those would be the ones.”

“No — I’ve left off with that.”

“Very interesting, what I’ve come up with.” This apparently was Dan’s cue to ask him to elaborate. When Dan said nothing, Saylor continued. “The girl had actually been in the country almost a month before the wedding, which is curious when you consider that she was here with her husband and not her brother. It gets more interesting though. That pregnancy?” Dan’s ears picked up. “She was booked into an abortion clinic in Montreal.”

“What?” Suddenly Dan was very interested.

“She went in for a consultation two weeks ago. She was supposed to have gone in for the full procedure last week, but she never showed up.”

Dan whistled. “I wonder who was behind it?”

“I thought you’d never ask,” Saylor said. “The operation was arranged and paid for by Lucille Killingworth.”

A surprise piece of the puzzle slipping into a very unexpected space. “Oh, man!” Dan said.

“I’d give a million bucks to know what was going on there,” Saylor said. “How did they react when you told them about the pregnancy?”

Dan flashed on the scene in the drawing room at the Killingworth home. He recalled the tense looks on both faces, but it had only been Thom who’d disavowed any knowledge of it.

“And she never said anything to the contrary?” Saylor asked.

“No, but she looked pretty shocked too.”

“I guess she would be if she thought she’d taken care of it.” There was a silence on the line then Saylor said, “Do you think the son was telling the truth when he said he didn’t know about it?”

“I’m inclined to believe it,” Dan said, sketching in Thom’s revelation about provisions for a first grandchild in his grandfather’s will.

“So legally speaking, because of the marriage any inheritance money would have belonged to the baby, whether it was Thom Killingworth’s DNA or not?”

“I guess. I can’t say for sure. I’m sure a lawyer would happily argue that.”

“Well, well — that’s interesting news,” Saylor said.

“When you put it that way, yes.”

“I’m all over it, buddy. You keep in touch now.”

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