by D. L. Wood
It was strange how easy it had been to frame Korrigan. Even now as he retraced his steps, it was hard to believe. From where he’d left McConnaughey, he’d only had to walk a few blocks to meet the cab he’d called for on his throwaway phone. After the cab dropped him near his stashed car, he’d driven to Korrigan’s apartment building and parked just down the street where he could keep an eye on the front entryway. Then he made the call to Korrigan about Port St. Lucie and waited for him to leave.
It was like Korrigan was following a script he didn’t even know existed. Once Korrigan had left, it had been so easy to call to Tate’s bank and transfer the money into the account he and Tate had set up to frame Korrigan. After a couple dozen keystrokes, the program Tate had shown him moved the money again and again until it ended up in an untraceable European account awaiting Vargas’s arrival next week, where he would start over. A new continent, a new life.
And it was all thanks to Tate McConnaughey, and that greedy, great big brain of his. And his sister and her pendant. He nearly missed it on the video, watched it a dozen times before he’d noticed her reach for the absent pendant and the simultaneous flash of realization that had crossed her face. He’d pulled the pendant from her things and after seeing the back of it, figured that the numbers on the back might be a phone number. After one call, he’d known exactly how he’d be able to find them—because they’d have to bring her to open the box.
Granted, he’d had to scramble to make the Bio-Tite thing work. Without knowing exactly when they might show or how many they might show up with after the ambush at DiMeico’s, he’d had to improvise. He’d been right, though. They’d moved on it the first chance they got. And the girl he’d used as a decoy—a junkie prostitute—was a brilliant diversion, if he did say so himself. He looked a lot less suspicious with her around, and especially with her dog in the car, though he hadn’t planned that. He’d tied up that loose end, too, after leaving Korrigan’s. They’d never find her or the car. Not now anyway. He hoped the dog would get taken in by her neighbors, though. Animals he liked. People, not so much.
He switched the radio from CNN. “Don’t You,” the ‘80s original, not the remake, blared through the speakers, the lead singer for Simple Minds pleading with someone not to forget about him. Vargas laughed and turned it up. Ironic, he thought, and laughed harder. Soon they’d all forget about him.
And that’s exactly how he wanted it.
TO THE READERS
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Book Two of the Unintended Series
In the aftermath of Chloe’s harrowing experiences with Inverse Financial, she finally decides it’s time to meet her estranged father in the charming Tennessee town where he’s settled down, while Jack tends to his own business out in LA. Unfortunately, Chloe’s meeting doesn’t go as planned, and, unable to face the mounting tide of secrets that have been kept from her, she decides to abandon the attempt. But when a murder investigation entangles her newfound relations, Chloe can’t bring herself to walk away. Partnering with a young private investigator in her father’s office who seems to have more than surveillance on his mind, Chloe works to solve the crime before it destroys the only family she has left and drives a wedge between her and Jack that is impossible to overcome.
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IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR HOPE…
My goal was to write this book in such a way that anyone who picked it up would enjoy it as a good story and a great thrill-ride, whether that person is a follower of Jesus or not. I hope that was the case for you. I also hope that if you, like Chloe, are feeling hopeless, and you have never considered the grace offered by Christ, that you would consider it now. Though Chloe is a fictional character, the truth she realized when things were at their darkest in her story is real.
YOU are loved by the God that created you. So much so, that He chose to send His son, Jesus Christ, to be born and to die an undeserved death, rather than be separated from YOU because of your sin. But Jesus did not remain dead. He rose on the third day, defeating death and, in doing so, defeated it for YOU. How? Because now, by accepting this gift of grace from God, death can no longer hold you separated from God. Instead, one day, death will just be the gateway for you to an eternity of peace in the presence of the God that made you. Not only that, but when you accept Christ as your Savior from the consequences of sin, He will be with you here. Now. And you will build a relationship with Him during your time on earth that will offer more hope, peace and purpose, even in the most difficult of times, than you could find anywhere else. This has been true for me and it can be true for you. No matter what you’ve done, where you’ve been, or how far you’ve fallen, God still holds this grace out to YOU.
Please check out these scriptures that do a much better job of explaining this than I ever could: Romans 3:23; Romans 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans 5:8; Romans 10:9-10; Romans 10:13; Romans 5:1; Romans 8:1; and Romans 8:38-39.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former litigation attorney now in her second career, D.L. Wood loves the art of storytelling, especially when it involves tales of suspense and the epic struggle of good versus evil. She lives in Huntsville, Alabama, with her husband, twin daughters and Westies, Frodo and Dobby.
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