Meant for Her (Love and Danger, Book 1) by Amy Gamet

Author:Amy Gamet [Gamet, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Amy Gamet
Published: 2013-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The women stopped at a Walmart for supplies and cash, taking out as much money as the ATM would allow and gathering the materials Julie needed to create the cipher wheel. Then they headed south in Hank’s SUV.

Julie was sitting in the passenger seat, which was now parked an hour and a half away from Marianne’s at the Albany airport. In her lap were twelve slices of a paper towel roll, each neatly marked into twenty-seven equal sections. The thirteenth was in her hand, along with the ruler and a pen. It was careful work, but she was nearly done.

A light green minivan pulled into the next parking spot over, and Gwen hopped out of its driver’s side door. Julie finished the last of her measuring and climbed out to join her.

“I thought a minivan was more practical, in case we needed somewhere to sleep.”

“Good call.”

The women worked to move their belongings and supplies to the new vehicle, Gwen once again taking her place at the wheel. She turned around in her seat to back out cautiously, then headed toward the interstate.

“Julie, I had to give them a credit card and a driver’s license,” she said.

“Crap.”

“I know. But they wouldn’t give me the van without it, and they wouldn’t take the prepaid credit card. My license says Trueblood, but I had a MasterCard in the name of Gwen Beaumont, and she let me use that one when I pretended I had just gotten married and it was all I had.”

“Wait, you took David’s name?”

“I tried it on for size. I went back to Trueblood after a month or two.” Gwen took a last sip of her soda, the straw taking in air with a loud slurp.

“Maybe the different name will be enough to throw them off.” Julie said hopefully, though her voice sounded false to her own ears.

No use crying over spilled milk.

Julie inserted the battery into the disposable cell phone she picked up at Walmart and held the power key, its display coming to life. She hit the internet browser button and immediately looked up the Leopold Cipher.

“Are you almost done?”

“Close.”

Each of the thirteen numbered rings would be labeled with all the letters of the alphabet on it and one blank, each in a different order. This is what she needed to look up, and she meticulously copied them from the internet site to the rings she had created. The key—the thirteen numbers she gleaned from “beautiful”—would tell her the order of the rings themselves.

“Nothing to it, but to do it,” she said to herself. With shaking hands, she grabbed another roll of paper towels and slid the towels off it, then used the scissors to slice the cardboard open with one long cut.

“What’s that for?” asked Gwen.

“I need a dowel to put the rings on. It has to be a little smaller in diameter than they are.” She cut a long piece of duct tape and put the roll back together, with a sliver of itself tucked inside the roll.

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