The Investigators, Inc. The Inheritance Case. Chapter 7. Information.

I was planning to send Matt back home with Miles, but decided against it. Since Lauren is here, she knows Aari very well, but not Matt, and since Matt is the leader of the Knight Riders, I felt it would be better to keep him here. I did ask him if he would mind, since Penny is his wife and she is sick. He said it would be okay, Penny and Matt had talked much about different things before they got married, and unless it was something they knew was life threatening, then the team comes first.

Annelie and Rock are the same way, as are Jennifer and I. Since there are at least 3 people to whom Viktor owes money, plus Lauren who wants money from him too, I decided to add another one into the mix. That is where Matt and his Knight Riders will come into play, and that will happen tonight if Viktor ends up at one of those nightclubs. It was also rather interesting that Jazzy Nilsen, the owner of that one nightclub, was on a first name basis with that police officer.

Could be he is on her payroll, so we will need to keep that in mind. We now know that Enid is not the Enid that Viktor married 5 years ago. They don’t look alike at all now that we have a good clear picture of the real Enid. That would explain the separate bedrooms, but Viktor seems to be going along with this change of wives quite voluntarily. So, what happened to his first wife? Is he really married to this woman? And who is this Enid anyway?

I should never ask myself such questions, sometimes I get answers that I don’t want to hear. Such was the case this time. “Hi Steve, can you talk?” asked Pacca. “Yes, I am getting my afternoon massage,” I said, “I hope you have some good information for me.” “Well, I do have some information,” she said, “but I don’t know if you will like it.” “That’s okay, tell me anyway,” I said, “we need information right now, good or bad, so we can get a break and find out what is going on, hopefully.”

“Okay, Jazzy Nilsen was born in Norway, but her mother moved to the US when was 2. The mother had met a man that she fell in love with and so divorced her husband and moved in with her new lover. They did get married a few years later. The man’s first wife had died and he had one son, also 2 years old. That son’s name was Toledo.” “So, Jazzy is Toledo’s step sister,” I said, “that is quite interesting.” “Even more so,” said Pacca, “Jazzy and Toledo got married when they were 18 since they were not really related and Toledo’s father had never adopted Jazzy.

They had two sons, both in their 20’s now. Jazzy is now 45. But don’t run ahead of yourself, Viktor is not one of the sons. There is one son that lives in the city though and works with his mother. The younger son reportedly lives in Mexico and doesn’t get along with his brother at all.” “Well, this is certainly new news about Toledo that we never found out before,” I said, “um, how did you find out all this information?” “From Miss Kat’s boyfriend, Trapper,” she said giggling, “I knew I wouldn’t be able to say that without laughing!”

“You’re lucky that Kat didn’t hear you say that,” I said. “That’s for sure!” she agreed. “I really wish Trapper would join us though,” I said, “he has a lot of knowledge that could help us a lot.” “Maybe it’s good this way though, Steve,” said Pacca, “he can keep up with current information very easily and then pass it on to us.” “True, but if he ever gets caught, that will be the end of him,” I said. “Now, I do have some information about Enid too,” said Pacca, “her real name is Vanessa Haugen.

Her father was from Norway, but he moved to Canada where he got married and that is where Vanessa was born. She moved to Trondheim a year ago, but at what point she moved in with Viktor I don’t know.” She then gave me the address where Vanessa is supposed to be living since she moved here. We will definitely check that out tomorrow. Maybe that is where she goes during the day and not to work as Pacca was unable to find any business where she might be employed.

I thanked Pacca and asked her to keep digging and she agreed to do that. According to the tracker on Enid (Vanessa), she had gone to be with Viktor where he works and stayed there for 2 hours. Then she went to the address that Pacca had given me, so obviously she had kept the flat in that building, for whatever reason. Perhaps a partner of hers is living there. We were to find out it was much more sinister than that. For now we are concentrating on following Viktor tonight and see where he goes.

I told Enid we were going to check on those other two nightclubs this evening and we left shortly after dinner. Oddly, Viktor went to Enid’s flat that evening and spent more than an hour there before going to Jazzy’s nightclub. I told Matt where he could find Viktor and to make sure he came on strong. “I already had that in mind Steve,” he said, “that is the best way to deal with these people.” We were in the parking lot of one nightclub and after talking with Matt we all got out of the van and were immediately jumped by some men.

I don’t remember much except receiving several punches to my back and I fell to the ground unconscious. The rest of the team handled our attackers easily enough though. Angel jumped out of the van, landing on her hands and knees and immediately turned into a lion again, roaring at the two men which had attacked me. That made them freeze and she then sprang into action, easily subduing the men, then staying there to protect me.

I was conscious by the time the fight was over, but it was decided we should head back to the house since I needed to rest. The rest of my regular team arrived at the house just before we returned. I had told Enid they were coming so she had everything ready for them. Enid seemed genuinely shocked when she found out we had been attacked at that nightclub.

I was the only one that was hurt though, which is good. My team didn’t think it was so good however. On the way back John had contacted Matt to let him know what happened to us, so Matt said they would be extra watchful. But, perhaps coming back early like we did was a good thing…

To Be Continued.

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