He looked at me carefully, clearly worried that I was about to say something he did not want to hear or judge him for something.
“I guess so. What’s wrong?” he asked.
“Do you know a man named Varek Kane?”
The confused frown on his face and the way he looked up at the sky while trying to think made me realize he truly had no idea who I was talking about.
“Not that I remember. Who is he?”
A cold feeling crawled up my spine. The man had specifically claimed he was one of Orion’s business partners. If Orion did not know him, then the man had lied, and that made me nervous about why he would lie about something like that.
“He introduced himself to me a few days ago at the hardware store. Big bulky guy. Really ugly. Balding head, huge nose. Honestly, he kind of looked like an ogre.”
Orion
