Page 145 of Family Bonds- Kelsey & Van

“You’re going to believe some degenerate?” Christian asked. “He had a thing for Sarah.”

“How did you find out he knew Sarah?” she asked.

Christian looked back and forth between them. “Kyle must have said something.”

“Nope,” Van said. “We haven’t said a word to anyone about it. Kyle didn’t know either, as it had nothing to do with him.”

“Sounds like you know what was going on,” Kelsey said. “Because, you know, Miles told the police.”

Christian’s face turned red. “I was supposed to be left half of his hotels,” Christian said. “Barry promised me. I saw the document. It was there.”

“So you were looking for it?” Kelsey said.

“I needed a copy of it to contest the will,” Christian said. “My lawyer told me I could use that to fight, but I didn’t have it.”

“My grandfather’s lawyer would have it,” he said. “You didn’t find it in the house though, did you?”

“He drafted it himself,” Christian said. “He was putting it in as an amendment. It never got there. It should be part of it. That had to be the reason.”

“Or it never happened,” Kelsey said. “And you’re making it up.”

“I’m not making it up,” Christian shouted. “I saw it in that desk. Right in the third drawer. That’s where he put it, but it’s not there now.”

“And that is the drawer you opened and closed all the way looking for it, Christian?” Van asked.

“I thought it was in the first house. He had sentimental value to that house. He’d told me more than once there was a safe in the wall, but that idiot Miles said he couldn’t find the safe and left because a neighbor saw him.”

She couldn’t believe how easily Christian just spilled that. “So you thought it’d be here?” Van asked. “That’s why you broke in over the weekend looking for it?”

“I’d been in the house a few times looking before you got here and couldn’t find it. Then I remembered I’d seen it in the desk and wanted to see if there was a hidden panel. That damn dog wouldn’t stop barking and I thought someone would hear it.”

“You thought since we were at the wedding it’d be the perfect time to not worry about anyone coming home?” she asked.

It actually started to make sense.

“No one got hurt,” Christian said. “What’s the big deal? I know it’s there. I just need to find it. Or you found it and you destroyed it. It’s more likely that! You want it all.”

“It’s not yours,” Kelsey said.

Van gave her a dirty look, but she didn’t care at this point.

“You can’t fire me over this.”

“Being fired is the least of your worries,” Van said.

“It’s your word against mine what was just said,” Christian said. “No one is going to believe it.”

“We got it all,” she heard and started to look around to see where the voice came from.

Van lifted his phone. “That would be the State Police listening in and recording,” he said.

Damn. Guess Van was good on his own.

She thought it was odd he kept using Christian’s name in the beginning but then realized that he wanted it clear who was in the room.

“You’ve set me up and have no grounds for anything,” Christian said.

“You just admitted you’d been in the house more than once and that you were aware of Miles looking for it at the other location,” Van said. “That’s more than enough for an arrest.”

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