The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

Author:Alice Winters [Winters, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

LELAND

I look up as the front door of Wellstone swings open and my main man walks in.

“Henry!” I shout.

“No.”

“Henry!”

Henry looks around like he could possibly look past me. Like he could possibly not notice me. Maybe he’s having trouble hearing on this fine day. “Jackson? Where is Jackson?” he asks.

“Henry! It’s me! Your son! Your long-lost son!” I say as I rush up to greet him.

He does this neat little maneuver that allows him to slip past me, then looks around the small office like Jackson might be chilling in the corner playing with rocks. “Where’s Jackson?”

“No idea. He said he was, and I quote, ‘Running away so I never have to deal with you again,’” I say. “I think he was talking about his mom.”

“Or you,” Henry grumbles as he walks up to me and folds his arms over his chest. “What do you have to do with Charlotte Foster’s mansion burning down?”

I see a lighter that Mason uses to light candles whenever he feels like he needs to look hard at work. I set my hand on top of it and scoot it off the desk where it clatters onto the floor before I use my foot to push it under the desk. “Nothing.”

Henry’s eyes are wide. “Jesus Christ. Did you start that fire?”

I can’t help but laugh, loving how easily he fell for it. Or maybe I should be concerned? Nah. “I’m joking. I didn’t.”

He points a finger at me. “I don’t trust you.”

“Well, you should because I’m the best son in the world.”

“Well, I don’t,” he growls.

“That’s not very nice when I’ve done everything I can to be the best son a father could ever want.”

He narrows his eyes while scrutinizing me. “Did you burn down the mansion?”

“Which one?”

“Charlotte’s.”

“Oh no, not that one.”

Henry folds his arms over his chest while giving me the Dad Look. “A different one, then?” he asks.

I wave him off. “Burn, shmurn, it’s fine.”

He sighs before grabbing Jackson’s chair and sitting in it. “They think they found Lila’s body.”

That snags my attention. “Wait… what?”

“They think,” he says.

“Wait. No… what are you talking about?”

“In the basement, they found some bones but because of the fire they were heavily degraded which will make DNA extraction difficult, though they’re hoping to find a way to get a good match and go from there. What they did find was Lila’s ring on the finger of the body—an engraved ring that Lila was wearing the day she went missing.”

“Sooo you’re wanting me to believe that Charlotte hired us to find her daughter, even though her daughter was dead in the basement?” I ask. “I mean, I know spring cleaning sucks, but I think she’d have at least cleaned her basement once in the past two years.”

Henry shrugs. “I’m just telling you what I’m hearing.”

The sound of Jackson on the stairs makes Henry look up at him.

“Hold on… what?” Jackson asks in surprise.

Henry gives me a look. “You said he wasn’t here! I’d have waited so I didn’t have to explain everything twice!”

“No, I simply said he ran away to the second floor.

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