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from the explosion site. The cops said if the
neighbor hadn’t found him in their pool they might not have known he was
there.”
    Conrad looked up at his trusted aide as
he continued.
    “They are also saying that it was a
major gas leak and it might be months before they can sort through it all to
find out. But there was no one in the house when it went up.”
    Because she had escaped somehow. He
looked again at the house as it had gone up before the feed had fuzzed out. The
blast had taken out his camera so he had no idea what had happened in the
seconds after. Except, of course, that her truck that had been parked in the
driveway had blown up seconds after the first blast.
    “Any of the neighbors see anything?”
    Nestor Carvey shook his head.
    “How the hell is that possible in a
neighborhood that small?”
    “There were no houses on either side of
her. The house across the street has an older woman in it that had no idea
there had been an explosion until I knocked on her door. She had to have been
all of three hundred years old and probably as deaf as a post. The other two
houses the owners were at work and only came home when it hit the news. And
they said they didn’t have much contact with her other than seeing her in the
yard leaving or coming. And of course there were the idiots that we hired to
kidnap her and bring her to us. They won’t be talking to anyone ever again.”
    Conrad nodded. The Ingrams had come up
with their own plans concerning McCray and he hadn’t been happy about it. Not
only had he ordered them killed, but had made it so no one would find their
bodies for some time. Then this happened. Now the cops were bound to go to the
house and find what had been done to them when they’d stashed them in the
basement wrapped up in tarps. Christ, this was a major fuck up.
    He pulled up the video again. He was
missing something. Conrad wondered again who had decided to put the camera on
rotate so he only got a view of the house when the camera swung around again. He
waited for the feed to come around as he watched her truck pull into the drive,
then back again when the house was there with the truck in the driveway. The
third time around, it showed the house go. He looked at the truck from the
first two times the camera rolled by it and tried to see if she had anyone in
it with her when Nestor spoke.
    “I looked into the fall she said she
had. There are no records of her going to the hospital or even the company
doctor. I’m thinking she was either lying, which we both know she’s a pro at,
or she simply took care of herself.”
    “She wouldn’t go to the company man. She
never liked him in the first place.” Conrad laughed. “With good reason, I
suppose. He’s one of mine.”
    When he brought up the video this time
he paused it on the truck. He kept staring at it when Nestor spoke again.
    “The police are looking for her
landlord. They can’t seem to reach him. And I’ve put in a search for him on my
own. He lives in England with his fifth wife and they have another home in
France. As soon as I get a number for him there, I’ll try.”
    Conrad didn’t think he’d find one, but
stared at the truck. “What kind of vehicle does she drive? I know it’s a truck,
but what can you tell me about it?”
    “Dark blue with tinted windows. It
doesn’t have a cab on the back. She said she hated them. And she—”
    Conrad stood up. “It’s not hers. The
truck, it’s someone else’s. This one in the camera, it’s dark green and has a
tool box in the back. Mother fuck, she took off in that monster she drives. Tell
me what you know about it.”
    Nestor was shaking his head and Conrad
wanted to scream at him. “Nothing, sir. She bought it as a personal and never
turned in the paperwork on it. She’s only had it for about a month, but even in
all that time she never registered it, nor has she ever driven it to work. The
only reason I know what I do about it is because I had told her I had