Treacherous Secrets novel Chapter 44

"What are you going to do now?" Carol asked.

"I'm going to work on my gardens, and I think Mario and I are going to start dating."

"Dating?" Sonja said with a raised eyebrow.

Emily laughed, "He calls it courting. But I like him a lot. He is so different from Kenton. It's sad, really sad, that I don't miss Kenton, not even a little bit. I can't believe I had lived like I had for so long, just trying to be what he wanted me to be instead of being myself."

Carol nodded, "We all make silly choices for all the wrong reasons. Maybe all of us have learned a good lesson from what's happened. Then, at least, Kenton's death won't be all in vain."

"True," Emily said. "I'll drink to that." She raised her glass and Carol and Sonja touched theirs to hers.

Her phone buzzed. The text message read. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

She growled deep in her throat. That idiot was getting cold feet. She was going to have to take care of this problem herself. "I'll be right there," she wrote back.

"Oh my God!" Janice shouted and handed the piece of paper she had been scouring for the last hour to Harold."What?" He looked at the paper.Janice reached over and pointed to the middle of the list. "Francis Connor Chase."

Harold raised an eyebrow, "Frank?"

"Yep." Janice picked up the phone and called one of the techs. "Find out what Francis Connor Chase's mother's full name is? Call me right back." She slammed down the phone. "How much you want to bet, Frank turns out to be our Junior."

"But we checked him out before. His father's name is Walter Edward, not Francis Walter, or Walter Francis, so how can he be a junior?"

"I've got a feeling about that." Janice said with a smile. "Let's go to Woodmont." She grabbed her purse and cell phone as they headed out the door.

Janice's phone went off just as they got to her car. "Carter. Ha! I knew it. Thanks Tony. What's that? You're sure. Thanks again, you're the best." She got into the driver's seat of her car and looked at Harold's expectant face. "Frances Connie Willington Chase is Frank's mother's name. He's a junior."

"I didn't think you could do that on the female side like that.""I don't think you can legally, but you sure can give your son a nickname like 鈥楯unior' if you want to," Janice said and put her car into reverse. "Or it might have been something that Kenton and Damon came up with. Call the chief and update him. I've got a feeling we are getting ready to catch our murderer. We just have to be able to figure out how to convince him to confess."

"What makes you think Junior is who killed Kenton? I thought we decided it was Damon Butler?" Harold asked, giving Janice a confused look.

"I had the guys in the lab match the ring we found in the casket with Carol Butler's ring. The markings on both rings matched exactly, but they didn't match the dent in Kenton Jenkins' head exactly. I had Tony check that, too. It just told me that there's a little variation. It appears that the ring that hit Kenton's head had a gap in the middle of the diamonds, like it had been broken or cut open and put back together." She came to a stop at a street light. "Remember, Terrell told us that Damon had bought the other ring with the tracking device for Junior. They wouldn't have matched exactly to start with because they were custom made, but I'm thinking that Junior must have figured out about the tracking device and taken it out."

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