Page 57 of Sapphire Nights
“Kurt will want to know about the meeting,” Walker warned as he climbed in, smelling of warm man and muskyaftershave. “If you tell him, you will be colluding with the Nulls just as theysaid.”
“I am not going to be drawn into this,” she said fiercely. “It is not myfight.”
He started the car and drove silently for a minute before replying, “The Lucys may be right. You might very well be the reason for the fire. My secretary called a little whileago.”
Sam hugged her elbows andwaited, not liking the tone of hisvoice.
“A lawsuit against the Kennedy’s mortgage company and the bank resulted in the Ingersson farm being returned from default and put in a trust with the proceeds from the suit when you were an infant. Since your grandparents were both dead by then, an executor was named. Once you reached twenty-one, you and Valdis became jointly responsible for anysale of theland.”
“And the Ingersson farm is what?” Sam asked, almost angrily.Valdis? She was essentially responsible for her insane aunt’sland?
“The farm is the linchpin allowing access from the town to both the Kennedy and the Menendez properties on themountain.”
“Cass,” Sam hissed. “This is why she dragged me up here. This is all Cass’sdoing.”
