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Fucking shit.
“That is my father’s head of security.”
The last photo is of a North Carolina license plate. I sit behind my laptop again, looking up the plate registration. “Well at this point I can’t say this is much of a surprise. The plate is registered to BioCere, Inc.”
“BioCere, Inc.?” Six questions me, blinking rapidly like she’s trying to remember something.
I tell them all briefly of the pharmaceutical and genetics lab out of Raleigh and the massive amount of money I discovered being funneled into the business.
Her face is scrunched up, and she’s repeating the name BioCere until she pops up with an “Oh!”
“Where are the photos? The baby photo with Adley in it.”
I pull the photo out of the box and hand it to her. She points to the badge hanging off the lab coat of the man behind my father. BioCere, Inc.
“I wonder if BioCere was the company distributing whatever vaccine he was pushing on your mom?” Luis asks Jackson.
“There’s more,” I tell them.
Lukas
Information overload would be an understatement. We’ve stumbled into a legitimate conspiracy, and it keeps getting deeper.
Although, I suppose we didn’t stumble into it, it stumbled into us. In the form of a lost, vulnerable woman who has quickly become an integral part of our lives.
My mind is obsessing over the photos of us on her phone. “What I can’t make sense of is how all five of us are connected. There’s an obvious connection for you three, but why Micah and me?”
“I have an answer for that, too.” Bennet looks exhausted, physically and mentally. His stiff posture gives me the impression he’s about to drop the biggest bomb yet. He’s been eyeing us warily since we got back.
He rolls his shoulders. “I was able to obtain access to all of my father’s accounts today, which is how I knew about the money being funneled into BioCere, Inc. I found a ton of other ‘interesting’ activity, definitely not all legal.”
From what we’ve learned about his father so far, I can’t imagine this is too surprising.
“I did find accounts for Annette Boyd and Isabel Posa. There are some interesting similarities and differences in the accounts. The Boyd account started with a large deposit, with pretty regular subsequent deposits being made. The Posa account, however, was just one large deposit that, other than rent and utility withdrawals, remained untouched.”
Bennet looks at both Luis and Jackson. “You both have legal rights to these accounts, by the way. I can’t tell if they are being monitored, but we might be able to make some strategic maneuvers to move them into safe accounts if you’d like to access them.”
Luis is silent, not reacting at all. Six moves over to him and wraps her arms around his waist, settling her head on his chest. Jackson lets out a low whistle when he looks at the screen.
“But wait, there’s more,” Bennet says in a bitterly sarcastic tone. “I said I found the connection to Lukas and Micah, and that connection is in my father’s financials as well.”
What?
Micah is confused too. “I know for a fact Jackson Adley isn’t my daddy,” he says without his usual cheerful disposition.
“It seems my father, through the BioCere accounts, made one-time transaction wire payments to each of your families. I have yet to figure out what these payments were for.”
BOOM. There it is.
After my parents passed, their accounts were turned over to me as part of my inheritance. The house was paid off and there was an impressive amount in savings. I had always wondered how a school teacher and a part-time nurse had managed to save up so much money.
My brain is working overtime, my thoughts flying everywhere at once. Micah looks shell-shocked and as confused as I feel.
“We need a whiteboard,” I announce. “Writing everything out helps me think. It’ll be the best way to organize all of the information so we can figure out what we need to do next.”
“Great idea,” Bennet agrees. “There’s a whiteboard in the office, but I’m not sure how well it’s attached to the wall.”
Jackson gets up, “I’ll get it down one way or another.” He jogs out of the room, Micah following after in case he needs help.
