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Zion started typing. “Louisa Amsterdam, age seventy, widow…she lives alone.”
“Are we to assume she’s been killed, and they took over the home?” Eden asked, and it was a logical assumption.
“No idea. He has some support, but we don’t know from who.”
“I didn’t recognize any of them, but that means nothing.” Zion was hacking into the security cameras from the train station. “I’ll get these over to Aurora.”
We pulled up to the house, and the car Aiden had driven was in the driveway, the drone hovering above it.
“Circle the property,” I ordered and Zion and Eden broke off, one going left, the other right. I stayed at the front of the property.
The rest of my exercitus were at the train station or coming to me, but I didn’t have time to wait. Aiden’s end goal was to kill Fred. I don’t know why he hadn’t just done it at the station, but he had his reasons and I’d take them since it meant that Fred lived.
Eden and Zion returned, and they both reported that all was quiet.
“It seems to only be Aiden’s car. No sign of Louisa?”
Eden shook her head. “No, we can ask a neighbor, perhaps?”
“Good idea. Eden, get the neighbor on the left; I got the right. Zion, watch our backs.”
I approached the quaint cape and knocked on the yellow door. I heard rustling, and then a middle-aged man stood before me, his Jack Russell terrier at his feet.
“Can I help you?”
“Good afternoon, my name is Vinny. I was supposed to be meeting with Louisa Amsterdam about medical care. I see a car in the driveway but no one is answering, and I’m a little concerned.”
He furrowed his brow and looked over. Zion rested against our car and waved when the man saw him.
“I’m surprised to see a car there at all. Louisa doesn’t drive, but she left yesterday for a vacation with her son.”
“Oh.” I made a show of scrolling through my phone. “It must have been a scheduling mishap. Thank you.”
He nodded. “No problem.”
I walked over to Zion and Eden was coming over too. “So…that dude was sketchy.”
“Really?”
She hummed. “I asked about Louisa and he said she went out, but when I asked what time she’d be home he said, ‘I don’t know, she was on a trip.’ Which was odd, because did she go out, or was she on a trip?” She shrugged. “I said I was there from the bank and asked if I could leave a message, and he said that he didn’t live there and was only housesitting. He’d never met Louisa.”
“Okay, that is odd.” I hooked a finger toward the house I went to. “He said she went on vacation with her family yesterday. No hesitation. Your guy is suspicious.”
I glanced at Louisa’s house, then over to the sketchy guy’s. “He’s not in Louisa’s house. He just wants us to think he is to buy time.”
“Well, me showing up at his door gave us away.”
I agreed with her. “We’re out of time. Let Lex Talionis know we’re going in, and they are to proceed upon arrival no hesitation.”
“Yes, Praeses.” Zion made the call, and the three of us carefully approached the house.
“I’m coming for you, Fred.”
CHAPTER FORTY
Fred
If I got out of this, I would get a CT scan on my head. I’d been banged on my noggin too much lately.
