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The Search Chapters 5 and 6 – The Call, Ryan’s Clue
Lionel answered the phone on the first ring. The caller ID didn’t display the number.
“I’m looking for Ryan Daley’s father,” a strange voice said,”Excuse me?” Lionel said. Ryan’s dad is dead,Lionel thought.
“Ryan Daley’s father,” the man said. “Do you know where is?”
Lionel bit his cheek. This could be the break they were looking for. “Yeah, he is not here,” Lionel said. “Can I take a message?”
“No,” the man said. “When will he be back?”
“I can’t say,” Lionel said..
The line clicked. Lionel called Judd. “I think we have our first really good clue,” Lionel said.
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“I thought you were a goner,” Darrion said. “I was thinking about all the nice things I’d say at your funeral.”
“You don’t know how close I came,” Ryan said. He explained what had happened and the clues he had learned. Darrion shook her head.
“I haven’t told you everything,” she said. “You know how I said my aunt and uncle disappeared? Well, they did, but the whole thing was suspicious. My dad started checking it out.”
“Wait,” Ryan said. “You know, making sure the big guys are safe. He helps out with some of the military jobs, too.”
“Military jobs?” Ryan said.
“Disposing of the nuclear weapons,” she said. “Planning military assaults, that kind of thing.”
Ryan raised his eyebrows. “No wonder your dad’s rich,” he said. “They have to trust you big time to put you in that position.”
“That’s just it,” she said. “When he started looking into what happened to my aunt and uncle, he got the feeling that somebody didn’t like it very much. But he didn’t stop.”
“Did he find out what happened?”
“He never told me a lot about it directly. I’d pick up things here and there when he talked with my mom. It seemed like the more he looked, the more convinced that there was something to the story my aunt and uncle were telling. You know, the Bible and everything. It seemed like what they believed got them killed.”
“So they didn’t disappear?” Ryan said.
“They were being held in custody in Romania. This was back before there was a Global Community. They had something against Nicolae Carpathia. I don’t know what. My dad found the place where they were held. They were released, they just disappeared.”
I know what happened to them, Ryan thought.
The Search Chapters 5 and 6 – The Call, Ryan’s Clue
The Search Chapters 5 and 6 – The Call, Ryan"s Clue