Page 43 of Chaotic Curse
“Now…
“Right.Juno Reyes.”She draws in a breath.“Because she’s the niece of the man who may be the person who’s threatening me.Sending those gifts.I mentioned him when you showed me Juno’s painting.He’s a man who works for the Colombian legislature.Hernando Reyes.”
“What?”I say through gritted teeth.
“Yeah,” Robin says, joining us as Vinnie heads toward his car.
“And you’re helping with this?”I ask.
“Yeah.So is Vinnie.He had to take a call.”
“So this Hernando Reyes…” I say.
Daniela swallows.“He was one of the men who…”
“Jesus Christ.”I clench my hands into fists.
I’m furious.So full of rage at this Reyes, whoever the fuck he is.
But I force myself to calm down.I don’t know if this is all germane to what I’m doing, but we need to figure out if the searches are related.
“Hawk, you okay?”Robin asks.
“Do I look okay?”
“No,” she says.“That’s why I asked.”
I rub at my forehead.“I’m going to try to compartmentalize this.Despite the fact that I want to go find Juno Reyes and find out where her uncle is and then go throttle him into next week.”
“Hawk, please…” Daniela says.
“Yes, all right.”I close my eyes and take a deep breath before continuing.“I was just meeting with some people as well.”
“Who?”Robin asks.
“Do you remember one of Dad’s old personal assistants?Ted Tucker?”
She purses her lips.“No, not really.Dad had a lot of assistants over the years.”
“This was a really nice guy.I used to play Monopoly with him?”
“Oh, right,” Robin says.“I do remember you playing Monopoly with one of dad’s employees.But then it just stopped.”
“Yeah,” I say.“There are some things you don’t know, Robbie.”
She lifts an eyebrow.“Tell me something I don’t know.”
“Ted Tucker disappeared.But…” I look around.“I really shouldn’t be telling you this here.”
“Hawk, what are you getting at?”I ask.
I can’t go any further into detail about Ted.Robin obviously doesn’t remember him, and my siblings never knew why I went to the hospital when I was twelve.I’m not even sure my mother knows.My father took me himself, told my mother I had fallen or something.Told them some lie about the doctors not wanting to risk infection, so no one else could come see me.
I was always amazed that my mother bought all of that.If it had been Falcon or Eagle…
Nope.Not going there right now.
“Yeah, he disappeared,” I say.“And Dad seemed very suspicious of Ted the entire time he worked for him.”
