12/30/2023 0 Comments Just because you re paranoid![]() It started with a couple eighth graders, I’m not saying who. “There were several other kids who saw and heard it all, luckily for Nick. Jason, the son of my nemesis, Maryann Dreyer. Maria has dark black hair, bright brown eyes, and a rounded figure. I sat down in the chair in front of her desk. Unfortunately, Nick was the one who threw it.” Maria sank into her desk chair and rubbed her eyes. “What’s going on?” I asked, as Maria shut the door to the office. Now, Maria and I are friends, but that doesn’t always help Nick. “Nick, why don’t you sit out here while I talk with your mom?” Maria asked. He wore the school navy-blue cardigan over his light blue uniform shirt, which was coming untucked. Sister Maria Campos, the school principal, opened her office door and Nick came slowly outside. “There’s been a fight,” Cissie told me once I was there. Cissie, the school secretary, had me pull further into the parking lot and come into the office. It was my turn to get Nick from school.īut Nick wasn’t waiting as I pulled into the school pickup area. We went back to work and spent a very pleasant morning and early afternoon not thinking about weddings or espionage or anything but the various assignments we had and how we were going to get the next assignments. We could get some clarification from him on his opinion of table cover counts, but it’s a pretty minor point.” What about the Bolton profile? Do we have enough interviews to write it?” “You know Mama’s old boyfriend, the one she said looked just like you?” “Sid.” I sat up, suddenly remembering something. “It’s like Nick being excited because none of us has the same last name.” “I’m not even sure I want you to take my name. “Still, it only seems fair to take you into account.” “She asked me how you felt about me not taking your name.” Mama and Daddy want to do the inviting, which is fair, but I don’t want my last name dropped.” Sid’s eyebrow raised as I hung up the phone. “Honey, your daddy and I want to do the inviting. “Well, honey, you’re going to be changing your name.” It leaves my last name off and I don’t like that.” Wycherly invite you to see Lisa Jane married to Sid Hackbirn. “I sort of like that idea, but I really hate the traditional wording.” “I was thinking we could use just a simple, straightforward traditional card.” “About your wedding invitations,” she said. I took the call from my desk, with Sid across from me, working on some edits. It started relatively early, when Mama called right after I got back from taking Nick to school. The Tuesday after the shootout, though, was not entirely a good one. Sid got over strep in only a couple days, although he was on the antibiotic for a full week. We had a few legitimate pickups and drops, and they pulled them off without a tremor. They just returned them with sincere thanks and said they’d helped a lot. Kathy and Jesse didn’t say much about my journals. ![]() So, Sid and I went back to living our lives. That didn’t mean Caponetti didn’t have some way of accessing Quickline, but it made it unlikely. No connection to anything espionage-related, and it seemed clear that whoever had set up the bad pick up had access to a lot of Quickline information. ![]() The problem was Caponetti checked out on paper. I’d told him about the middle-aged woman I’d seen and pointed out that Carla Caponetti sounded middle-aged. The suspects had been closed mouthed, according to Henry. It was insanely annoying that after nearly getting several of our backsides killed, we still didn’t know who was trying to kill Sid and probably me as well. You can read the first chapter here and follow all of the chapters that have run here. Sid and Lisa are headed for the shock of their lives – assuming family doesn’t make them crazy, their business lets them, and the person gunning for them doesn’t succeed. Like the old poster said, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Book nine in the Operation Quickline series is Just Because You’re Paranoid.
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