Page 30 of Chaotic Curse
His ghost roams this place.
I can feel it.
And he has secrets.
Secrets that cost him his life.
10
DANIELA
Vinnie’s eyebrowsnearly fly off his forehead.
“Hernando Reyes?”
I gulp as I nod.
Vinnie grabs his iPad.“When I first went to Colombia on my grandfather’s orders, he gave me a PDF.It was encrypted, but I took screenshots just in case the original file was pulled from the encrypted drive.I did a lot of research on all the people named in the document.Hernando Reyes was one of them.”
“And?”Robin asks.
“He’s a sitting senator in the Colombian Congress and he has a slew of unexplained deaths related to him.”
I gulp again.“Maybe forget I said his name then.”
Vinnie shakes his head.“Oh no.We can’t forget it, Daniela.Someone gave you that teddy bear with a live grenade inside.This isn’t anything to mess around with.”
I nod shakily.He’s right of course.
“You okay?”Robin asks me.
I stare blankly at all of them.
“Of course she’s not okay,” Vinnie says.“She’s been through hell, and just when she thought she was safe, here it all goes again.”He continues tapping on his iPad.
“Anything?”Robin asks.
“Not yet,” he says.“But a simple Google search isn’t going to give me what I need.I’ll need to try a…different search engine.”
The dark web.I don’t ask, but I’m pretty sure that’s what’s going on.
“Make sure you hide your IP address,” Robin says.
“I’m one step ahead of you,” Vinnie says.
He continues to type, his brow furrowed.
Then—
“Okay.I’ve got something.Seems that Hernando Reyes—at least I think the one we’re talking about; it’s not an uncommon name in Spanish circles—is related to a local artist.Juno Reyes.”
I drop my jaw.
“You know the artist?”Robin asks.
“I don’t know her personally, but Hawk has one of her paintings in his home.It’s a really cool painting with stars and planets and stuff.”I tap at my chin.“I can’t remember the name of it off the top of my head.”
“In Hawk’s house?”Vinnie asks.
