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and could use some company if you want to tag along.”
    “I’d love to! Talk to you then,” Charlotte said with an equally happy grin.
    * * *
    A fter they’d gone, Kurt took their suitcases back to Jen’s room. He was going to be sleeping on the couch but he still needed a room to change in and store his clothes. Julie made room in Jen’s closet for them to hang her nicer clothes while Kurt sorted through his suitcase for some sweats to sleep in.
    “Hey, Kurt, you wanna beer?” Jack asked from the hallway.
    “Yeah, I really do,” Kurt said as he grabbed his sweats and toiletries before heading to the bathroom.
    “I’ll meet you on the back porch. It’s cool out there, but I need a cigar.”
    “I’ll take one of those, too, if you have an extra one,” he said with a grin before shutting the bathroom door.
    Looking at himself in the mirror, Kurt told himself in a breathy whisper, “She’ll never fall for his bullshit. Have a little faith in the girl.” Then he put her out of his mind to brush his teeth and change clothes. By the time he made it to the patio he could smell the fragrant smoke of a good cigar.
    “There you go,” Jack said as he gestured to an open beer and unlit cigar sitting on the glass top table. The patio furniture was comfortable and Kurt could see the stars in the sky despite the bright lights of the city.
    After taking a sip of the beer, he lit the cigar with a jet of flame from Jack’s lighter. “Oh, Uncle Jack, you have no idea how bad I needed this.”
    Jack chuckled and said, “I bet I do. That look that passed between you and Polly nearly scorched the carpet, but the chill between you and Trey put out the fire right back out.”
    “Maybe you do have some idea, then,” Kurt whispered. “That obvious?”
    “Yeah, you wanna talk about it?”
    “Naw.” He shook his head. “I got a beer, a cigar, and a secret mission. I’m goddamn James Bond, dude.”
    “Did you tell your sister anything?” Jack asked before he took another sip of beer.
    “Nope, but I did tell her if anyone asks to say this is just a family visit.”
    “Good,” Jack said. “On Monday I want you to take your resume down to the ship channel area and stop by four different transport companies. If we’re lucky you’ll get an interview at one or two of them. Just make sure you don’t mention my name. I’ve already spoken to Uncle Charlie and he’s gonna be your referral, so sell them on calling him to check you out.”
    “I still don’t understand what all this is about.” Kurt had been mulling over their brief conversation all day but still couldn’t see the big picture.
    “Kurt, my company is under attack.” Drawing a big mouthful of smoke, Jack let it out in four big smoke rings. “Our transport costs have gone through the roof. Even though I’ve doubled the sales over last year, and we’re all working harder than ever now, our total profits are flat.”
    “So bring in Uncle Charlie,” Kurt suggested. “He’ll give you a fair price.”
    “He’s too busy with his regular customers and doesn’t have the time to open a second office here. No, what I need to do is find out who managed to get a bunch of unrelated companies to raise our transport costs and no one else’s.”
    “So I’m going to try and get a job at one of these companies to figure it out.”
    “Yup, that’s the plan,” Jack sighed. “My only fear is that I’m sending you into something that could be dangerous.”
    “I can take care of myself,” Kurt said, thinking Jack was being melodramatic.
    “Do you understand how much money we’re talking about?” Jack asked him with squinted eyes. “So far this year my company’s sold a quarter billion dollars of inventory. The transport costs are in the tens of millions. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to fuck me over. They won’t care about bustin’ up a nosy coon-ass like you.”
    “I’ll be careful,” Kurt said with a worried frown.
    “That’s why I