AmyStrange & the Criminal
(Part 1: the Escape)
                              Copyright © 2019 by David P. Ayotte
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR CHILDREN
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CHAPTER 7: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26th

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     They promptly sold the house to   
the Corporation, and also signed a non-
disclosure agreement that, oddly       
enough, also included talking about    
their Dad's death.                     
     Everyone thought he’d committed   
suicide, including his sons, and that  
was mostly because of what he’d said,  
and also because there was no hard     
evidence to contradict the suicide     
conclusion.                            
     I'm always suspicious of suicides,
though. Even the ones where there was  
no question about it, but especially   
the ones that were questionable or su- 
spicious, like this one was.           
     His death was just too convenient 
for the Corporation, and it certainly  
was interesting that JJ had also been  
a real estate agent.                   
     It's one of the underlying reasons
why many of the real estate agents and 
agencies had banned together to sue the
Corporation, but the number one reason,
of course, was because of the money.   
     No one knew for sure how much had 
really been spent, because everything  
was done in cash, and because of the   
non-disclosure agreements, but that    
didn't stop anyone from making educated
guesses.                               
     The most conservative estimate was
half a billion dollars, but not every- 
one agreed with that figure. A lot of  
people, including the first two real   
estate agents, thought the Corporation 
had paid out a couple billion dollars  
for all that property.                 
     The lost commissions from all     
that, even the low-ball number, was    
what this was really all about.        
     Anyway, because of all the law-   
suits, all those houses, more than five
thousand, have remained empty ever     
since that day JJ was found.           
     It looked scary at night too, and 
that's where Rhonda figures her sister 
is. To me, it certainly looked like the
most obvious place. The problem was    
with so many houses, you couldn't just 
break into one and start searching, be-
cause someone was sure to try and stop 
us at some point, probably before we   
got too far.                           
     Even if no one stopped us, that’s 
a lot of fucking houses to search      
through.                               
     That meant that before we could   
start searching, we had to narrow the  
number of houses down to a more manage-
able amount, before someone stopped us.
     If we all put our heads together, 
Rhonda might be able to write a program
that would do just that.               



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