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on my own. Jason gave up and lifted me from the floor and carried me back out to the waiting golf cart. “Rory, I need for you to hold on. I’m going to get us back to my cabin as fast as I can.” He started the golf cart. “We are going to figure this out Rory. I promise.” The golf cart jumped with a start. “Now hold on.”
     
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    I was sitting on the couch with my head in my hands trying to figure out what the hell was going on. My life was boring as hell a few days ago and now there was so much going on I couldn’t keep anything straight. Jason was talking to someone in the kitchen. I didn’t hear another voice so he must have been on the phone.
    “I don’t care what you have to do. I’ve only got what Betty gave me, but there has to be more. There has to be a hell of a lot more. Are you listening to me? Rory said the house is the same.” He paused listening to their response. “Exact . . . to a tee. Who the fuck does that?” I turned to look at him, he moved closer to me. “I need it right away. Like a week ago.  Yeah, I’ll be here. I’m not going anywhere and I’m not leaving her. You’ll have to come here.”He covered my hand with his.
    “Who was that?” I wiped the sleep from my eyes.
    “I have a friend down at the police station. His father worked the case of the body they found years back. He was also good friends with Betty’s husband. And he’d done some side work for Betty.” I looked at him, about to ask what kind of work. “Some kind of security stuff from what Tony said. He wasn’t really too sure.”
    “Is his father coming over now?” I ran my hand through my hair.
    “Yeah, Tony said he’d bring him by in a little bit.  For now do you want to go through Drew’s book with me?” He lifted the book from the table behind him and handed it over to me.
    “Did you already read it?” I looked at him, hoping he hadn’t.
    “No, I helped you to the couch and then I started making some phone calls.  I thought all of a sudden it seemed very strange that so many people have lived here and have known Betty and Bruce so long, but did anyone really know them?”
    “What did you find?” I questioned. Something brought him to this frame of mind about Betty and Bruce.
    “I admit I flipped through Drew’s book and I found this.” He held up a thumb drive.  “Now this I did look at.”
    “That was in the book?”             
    “There was a hole cut in the back and this was tucked in the little nook of the pages.”
    “What was on it?”
    “Recent pictures of you from when he was following you.” I went to say something, but he stopped me. “None of them were anything more than following you around, outside of your house.”
    “Still freaks me out a bit that he had been following me.”
    “I know. I’m sorry about that, but Betty insisted.”
    “What else was on there?”
    “That’s why I called Tony. There were pictures of your grandmother, well I can only assume it was your grandmother and you when you were a child, pictures of you at her house, pictures of you and Caroline when you were a baby, and . . .” he ran his and down his jaw.
    “What?”
    “Pictures of you with Bruce.My head snapped up at him.               But you said you never met Bruce or Betty.”
    “I hadn’t.” I was confused.
    “Well, you wouldn’t have remembered it, you were just a baby. Maybe two.”
    “I don’t understand this. I don’t understand what is going on.”
    “I’ve got the pictures loaded to my laptop. I’ll hook it up to my TV and we can see them on the bigger screen.” He moved to get his laptop.
    “I’m going to go freshen up. Splash some water on my face.” I stood up and headed toward the bathroom in the hallway.

Chapter Ten
     
    “Wait! Wait! What are you . . .”
    “Jason what is . . .” I stopped in my tracks as I stepped out of the bathroom and found Jason being pressed against the wall of the living room by a very large