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“Like Sam said, at least it’s good news,”
“Yeah, and Knight Security is getting free publicity. I’d say Sanders got a raw deal, but he’s loving the attention.”
Val walks over to her briefcase, pulls out a large stack of papers, and sits down on the couch.
“Did you bring work home, Val?”
“Kind of. These are copies of my uncle’s emails.”
“Val, I think that’s against the law if you did it without his permission. Even if you find something, you wouldn’t be able to use it as evidence.”
“You’re probably right.”
She starts reading over the papers.
“Val, I told you that’s illegal.”
“We already accessed his account, so if I’m already guilty of a crime, I should at least try to find something. Right?”
“I know I’m going to regret this.” I hold out my hand, and she gives me half of the pages.
“What are we looking for, Val?”
“You said something about kickbacks, so I wanted to see if any of the emails seem— I don’t know, kind of suspicious.”
“In other words, you have no clue.”
“Yep, that about sums it up,” she admits ruefully.
We both start reading through our stack of emails.
“Val, have you ever heard of a company named ReConstruct?”
“No, did you find something?”
“I’m not sure. It’s more what the email doesn’t say.”
“Let me read it,” I read the email out loud. “Thanks for confirming approval. We’ll submit our bid tomorrow.”
“Approval before they bid? Where’s my uncle’s reply?”
“Here it is. It says our arrangement will continue as we have a renovation planned for next month.”
“Chase, is that all it says? There’s nothing else in my Uncle Victor’s response?”
“No. It’s what isn’t being said, Val. Like he purposely made it vague.”
“I agree. I think our next step should be research on ReConstruct.”
I stand up with the papers in my hand. “Val, where do you want me to put these emails?”
“In the firepit.”
I start to laugh. “You get the matches. I’ll get the marshmallows and chocolate. We can have s’mores.”
Later, as we watch the last embers in the firepit lose their glow, Val looks over at me.
“Thanks for helping me.”
