In another suite across town at a cheaper hotel, Murray Underwood, the private investigator who’d followed Aurelia from the states hung up the phone with a tired sigh. He’d just had the last of four intense conversations with his current clientele. Client #1 was overjoyed about Aurelia’s nuptials. Client #2 was relieved because as the wife of a wealthy man, Aurelia now posed no financial threat to him. Thus he could devote his remaining funds to his physical and financial recoveries. Client #3 was sad and disappointed that Aurelia was off the dating market. Yet he saw her marriage as a clear sign for him to just step aside. Client #4 was piping hot mad about those nuptials. He even planned to physically stop the wedding, but was delayed in London due to the bad weather currently swirling in the Atlantic Ocean . The end result was the same for Murray – loss of income. Only Client #1 felt the need to keep the P.I. on retainer for future updates about Aurelia’s life, but still o...
That's all for today. Tomorrow I will post the Epilogue and the Letter to Readers.
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Wow..........
ReplyDeleteI did not see that happening. How ironic that Jinn would be the one to take him out. I guess we all assumed that he just wanted to forget what happened to him ans moved on with his life. I wonder how he is going to deal with what he did.
I love this story and sad to see it coming to an end.
Paula
Paula, I never focused directly on how he felt or left many big hints to his mental state. When it came time to use Heidi as a 'red herring' (a literary term for something/someone that draws reader interest away from the main issue/suspect), he was the perfect ace in the hole.
ReplyDeletePS. You'll see how Jin is coping in the Epilogue.
ReplyDeletePaula and others, you may want to re-read Ch. 29.1. I tweaked it a bit to give more hints into Jin's mental status.
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