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women that my mom is looking for. One has been hurt, the other will be homeless soon. Do you know if they live together?” Jake said he didn’t know if Louisa had her own address or not, but he’d been told to use Kendrick’s. “You think they’re scamming you, and me eventually?”
    “No. I really don’t. Kendrick might be blinded by her sister, but she’s far from stupid. She told me once she can speak ten languages. I’ve actually used her a couple of times when I had someone that I didn’t understand. She works hard and pays you back when she can.” Jake laughed again. “Louisa, however? I’d not trust her with money as far as I could throw her. I’d not lend her anything unless you never want to see it again. And if she wants something from you, walk away. She’ll make you nuts to have you see it her way.”
    Danburn wasn’t sure he’d trust either one of them, but Jake had always been honest with him, and he didn’t doubt that he might feel this way about the two of them. His mom would have to leave them alone. He didn’t want any more trouble coming his way right now.
    “By the way, those two men that we found in your lake. Do you know anything about them, other than that they’re dead? And you do know that they’re not the sort that goes hunting, right? Both of them were armed like they were going to war, but no ID, wallet, or even a cell that we could look at. Anything you can tell me about that?” Jake laughed. “I have a feeling that somehow, with you asking about her, Louisa is involved in this, and Kendrick might be as well.”
    He knew he could trust the man. But did he trust him enough to let him know everything about the two men? He’d find out. Danburn knew that as well, so he told him what he knew. Not that he’d drowned the men, but that they’d turned up on his land and that Louisa had been shot.
    “Christ love a duck. All right. But this is between the two of us.” Danburn told him of course. “The two men work for a man by the name of Bernie Bullock. I think you might have heard of him.”
    “The guy who a few years ago started buying up land around the area and close to my land. And from what I’ve read in the papers, about six or seven months ago he moved in. Yeah, so?” Jake told him there was more to it, and that he thought the man was up to no good. “I think I might have tried to tell you that when you guys came out to tell me he was using the land with a government grant. And weren’t there some rules he was supposed to abide by? I’m guessing that he’s not, if they’re armed like you said these two were.”
    “There were rules. And no, I don’t think he is. But he made some sort of deal with the big guys in office. Leasing the property for ninety-nine years, then it reverts back to the state. He has guidelines, like you said, that he has to meet and all, but they don’t have it in their budget to enforce these rules. So he pretty much does what he wants out there unless we have to be called in. Twice now we’ve been summoned out there for someone dying. And that’s only been in the last six weeks.” Danburn asked him what had happened. “What we’re being told—and the bodies do have the appearance of it—is that they hanged themselves. Too far from their families or something like that.”
    “And this has to do with the Barrera sisters, how?” Jake told him he didn’t know as yet, but he’d bet anything that Louisa did. “Christ. They were both at my house. I wonder what sort of shit that is going to cause me.”
    “Hang on.” When he was put on hold, Danburn started making a list of things he had to do to keep himself out of the middle of their drama. And he had no doubt there was a lot of it with these two. When Jake came back on the line, he sounded upset. “Danburn, if you want to just happen to drive by her apartment, you might see for yourself what kind of shit this girl is in.”
    He wrote down the address and grabbed his jacket