Chapter 29. Jane is discovered
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Nobody knows how they will react when someone they love deeply has died.
Jane Knight took the pills, she drank in excess and she turned to Jeff Allen for comfort, she slept in his bed, in his arms.
He was waiting for her period to pass before he made love to her properly. He was kind to her.
Jeff gave Jane free access to his prescription medication and she took it excessively.
She was sleeping more than she was awake. Until one day, she accidentally over heard Jeff talking on the phone with someone....
" Make sure he is found guilty, do what you can to keep him locked up. I know there is no body.
How can there be a body when she's here with me. Pay someone off. The magistrate.
Max can never be allowed out of jail. Everyone believes he murdered her so what's the problem Frank?"
Jane stepped back then, she was in the bathroom getting a pill when she heard Jeff out of the port hole window, talking above on the aft deck of the Yacht.
Jane felt sick. He lied, Max was alive. She so stupidly allowed him to comfort her, to drug her and take advantage of her grieving.
She was angry- Jane remembered.
Sasha had died in that accident.
Jane cried, she was feeling it all hit her at once, she took a handful of the pills now, feeling deep sorrow-hopeless.
She swallowed them with a large glass of vodka.
" He will never have me as his wife." Jane was very unstable.
The drugs made her reckless. She wanted to punish Jeff. She would die before she let him control her.
Jane sat down on the floor. She blacked out.
The rolling movement of the ship in the undulating sea water caused her to vomit.
She threw up undigested pills and vodka.
Jane was very thin now, it wouldn't take much to kill her.
She barely ate anything. Her hair had lost its luster.
Jane woke up in the first room she had been in, not Jeffs.
Her hands were tied to the bed. She had a small pull alarm on her body.
Jane moved, trying to get the ties off of her wrists. The alarm sounded.
She thrashed her head around.
A woman dressed in scrubs came in and gave her a shot, then forced her to drink some juice.
She held Jane's head up and forced her mouth open, she gave her some creamed soup.
Jane yelled."Jeff!..... Get him down here!"
The woman slapped her face.
"Shhh. quiet. I'm trying to save your life here."
Jane questioned the woman, she spoke perfect English, with an Australian accent. " Who are you?"
" My name is Lisa Peters, I'm a registered nurse, hired by Jeff. I was brought on board after you attempted to kill yourself with those pills, sorry I slapped you, you tend to get hysterical."
Jane shook her head, she was getting drowsy.
"I don't remember doing that."
" I think I know you, you write those romance books, Jane Knight, right?"
Jane nodded. "Jamie Clarke is my real name." Her head rolled to the side and her eyes rolled back, she passed out then from the effect of the shot.
Lisa was in shock. The missing Jane Knight was right here.
Right on Jeff Allen's yacht. She took out her phone and snapped a few pictures and sent them to her sister in Australia.
The pictures made their way to Canadian media.
The police saw the horrible photos and notified authorities in Greece to investigate.
The lawyer for Max Turner was informed next, Max was exonerated.
A female detective called and asked to Max if he would agree to an interview, again. He agreed, anything to get his Jamie back.
Max thought that he could track Jamie down if he had access to Jeff's office building.
Detective Kelly Aragon had a practical look. She wore her strawberry blond hair back in a set of wrapped braids, pinning them up into a bun.
She was petite, but lean and strong. She could bench 100 pounds. She could do a mile in 20 minutes. She had tenacity and never let things go.
This was the makings of a good investigator. Most importantly, she had always been team Max.
He was happy to talk to her this time.
"Max, tell me, did Jamie have a drug problem when she was with you?"
Max shook his head, "no way."
She nodded,"The informant that leaked the photos was fired the next day. Her name is"...she held out her file to read the name, "24 year old Lisa Peters- she is an Australian, a nurse that works on super yachts.
You might start there. Lisa told authorities that she was called to care for a woman that attempted suicide."
He frowned.
Kelly continued, "Jamie took a handful of narcotics and was found lying in a pool of vomit, full of pills. Thank God she threw them up, that saved her life.
Lisa said that she was told that Jamie was dealing with horrible motion sickness before the incident."
Max frowned, "Why, why would she want to kill herself, what did he do to her?"
Kelly covered his hand with her own and squeezed.
" Lisa spoke with Jane briefly, she told Lisa that her real name was Jamie Clarke. She didn't even remember trying to kill herself.
Lisa had felt that she had been drugged up. She had been instructed by the ship's doctor to sedate her."
Max sat forward, thinking of what to do first.
He would do research for the name of a super yacht in Jeff's fleet of expensive things.
He would fly to Greece to interview that nurse.
Detective Aragon was not able to officially help Max. It was out of her jurisdiction. Max was on his own.
However, she never let things go. Her department had let him down once.
Kelly Aragon put in for vacation, she had a s**t ton of it. She needed to use it up anyway.
Max was looking for a call girl. A certain woman that had taken pictures of him. He knew she was spotted going in and out of the Jeff Allen building.
Dave had started surveillance on the building- watching for Jeff, watching for any sign of Jamie. He told Max everything.
Max made his way to the outside of the building. He saw her coming out and walk to the front of the building, waiting for her car.
Dave drove up instead of her driver in a similar car and helped her into his car.
He drove off, then stopped a little ways down the road.
He picked up Max.
Max slid in next to Crystal Fine. He said, "Hello miss Fine." Crystal tried to get out. Dave drove off, the doors were locked.
Max grabbed her by her neck. "I may just do to you what you told everyone that I already did." She shrunk back. "That was all Jeff, I didn't have a choice."
Max took her to the park and picked up Detective Kelly Aragon. She had insisted on helping him.
"Miss Fine. I'm detective Kelly Aragon. Unfortunately for you ma'am, I just heard you admit the truth to Max on this device here." She held up the hidden recorder that she had Max wear.
" Explain to me how your boss, Jeff made you take those photos with Max.
You realize now that you are facing a lot of jail time, do you understand?"
Crystal was street smart, she would roll over.
Detective Aragon continued, "unless....well, let's say you do Max a favor. He needs to get on one of those lap top computers of your boyfriend's. We need you to get him one."
Kelly casually chewed on her finger nail.
"You do have a choice here. Help us, or we arrest you now."
Crystal nodded.
"Can you get a lap top computer from your boyfriend, Frank Gold?"asked Max.
Crystal Fine gave in, she agreed. She was going to help Max, then split town.
Frank would kill her. She was street smart after all.
Crystal walked into Frank's office and grabbed one of the laptops at one of the security staff cubicles.
It was empty, as it was the weekend. She put it in her large bag and walked it out to Dave.
She said," You have 3 hours, then I'm splitting town." That's when the train was scheduled to leave for Calgary.
Dave agreed. He went to the car and drove to meet Max and Kelly. She was chewing gum now.
Max stared at her as she was smacking and popping the gum.
She nodded at him. "I quit smoking a year ago. I need something here."
He nodded.
Max opened the computer and entered his former credentials. Not working, he tried the first set of credentials they had given to all new employees, he remembered it because it was so weak.
He typed Welcome!1 and clicked the box to change the password. He was in.
He inserted a zip drive and downloaded a program that would over ride the firewall.
He was in, too easy. He pulled up Jeff Allen's shared calender. There it was marked off, vacation in Greece. No return date planned.
Hmm. Max pulled up Jeff's shared excell account, he saw fuel costs entered for jet fuel for his private jet, itinerary to Athens Greece.
"Sure, write it all off at the end of the year as a business expense," Max sneered.
The next line was for supplies delivered to the " Lazy Jane" super yacht.
" Got you, you bastard!"
Kelly came back to the car, wrapping on the smoked window, "times up Max, we gotta get that computer back."
He nodded.
He smiled. He gave her the laptop after wiping the over ride program clean and removing the zip drive.
Kelly took the lap top to Crystal and she put it back, she walked out to her waiting car.
Dave gave her a ride to the train station.
Max handed her an envelope with $5,000.
She smiled, "Thanks baby, I always knew you were one of the good guys, sorry about....everything I hope you find her."
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