Page 4 of Played by Him

Work. That’s what I needed to focus on. Get back to the entire reason I’d come here to begin with. Keeping my promise to Adare.

Even though we’d – I’d – been closed for two weeks, I did have a case to work on while I waited for others to come in.

I’d met Jenna on a case. She hired me to find the half-brothers and sisters her mother had given up or had taken from her. I’d gathered some information about them already, but between Adare’s hospitalization and death, and then my needing to go back to Indiana for my father’s new trial, things had been on hold. Now, it was time to pick them back up again.

Fortunately, my whiteboard was still against the far wall, turned around to prevent clients from seeing personal information, and everything I’d put on it before was still there.

I walked across the office and turned the board so I could refresh my memory. At the top was Jenna’s mother. I’d listed all of the aliases I’d been able to find, including what I knew of which name Jenna’s mother used for the different births, and the approximate years each child was born. I still had a lot of blanks to fill, and I intended to work my ass off to give Jenna a chance to know siblings who might end up being a part of her life.

I’d focus on the kids who were born after Helen Kingston’s arrest and induction into Witness Protection, mostly because that was the research I could do around here. In another one of those strange twists that I kept seeing, Helen had been sent from Florida to Cheyenne, Wyoming…where she ended up being far too close to Jenna. It was a fuck up of epic proportions on the part of the US Marshals. One that had almost gotten Jenna killed a few years ago.

But, there was one positive to her having been that close. If – no, when – I found her siblings, they’d be close enough for them to have a relationship if they wanted it. The older ones would be more difficult to locate, but if there was a way to find them, I’d do it.

I couldn’t change what Jenna had been through, but I could do this for her.

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