Page 135 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

“We were at a family wedding,” she said. It just hit her. “Someone would know that. They would know there would be no chance of us coming home and catching them.”

“That’s right,” he said. “That would almost eliminate my father. He wouldn’t know about Carson’s wedding. It’s not the same last name as yours. I doubt he even knows we are dating.”

“It has to be someone on the island. Or someone that knows the Bond family.”

“That is what I think,” he said.

“What about that asshole from Cape Cod? The one that got in your face at the hotel. They were from Boston. They’d know the Bonds. They knew your name. You said you owned the hotel. If that idiot Bill found out about me and where I lived, someone could have done it at that party. They were taking videos of you and me when you were talking to them.”

“Good point,” he said. “I guess when you calm down you can piece things together. I’ll let Mac know to look into them. But it still wouldn’t explain how they could get into my house.”

“Someone could be good at picking locks and security systems. Or jammers. Did you think of those things?”

“You watch too much TV,” he said. “Like that movie the other night. That doesn’t happen.”

“Of course it does,” she said. “How else do they think of it for a movie?”

He pulled her closer to him on the couch. “You can believe that all you want if it helps, but it’s not true. I’m sorry this is happening to you.”

“It’s not your fault. Don’t think it is,” she said. The last thing she needed was for him to put this on his shoulders.

“It feels it,” he said. “It feels like my whole life is out of control and I have no way to get the answers I need.”

“You’re getting more than you had before you moved here,” she said. “And you could get some more with a phone call.”

He kept quiet after she said that and she didn’t expect any differently.

She wouldn’t push even when she wanted to.

38

MONEY AND GREED

Van left Kelsey’s house on Sunday morning.

She’d thought they’d spend the day together, but he had other plans.

He texted his father that he wanted to talk and he wanted to do it when Kelsey wasn’t around.

It took his father twenty minutes to reply and he knew it was on purpose.

He wasn’t going to get worked up though.

His phone rang and he answered. “Hi, Van,” his father said. “It took you weeks to get back to me. How come?”

“Why are you on Amore Island?” he asked.

There was silence after that. “How did you know?”

“Don’t play games with me,” he said. “I’m not as stupid as you think I am.”

“It took you two days to figure it out,” his father said.

“Actually it didn’t. It’s just when I decided to call. Come to my place so we can talk in person.” He hung up after that.

He guessed his father was still here and it worked in his favor.

Ten minutes went by and there was a knock at his front door.

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