Rose Worthington, the now ex-Councilman’s soon-to-be ex-wife, pretended ignorance whenever he was able to catch her on the phone and ask a few questions. Shortly after the councilman’s disappearance, the campaign office in Carmel was closed down, and none of his office workers were able to say where he had gone or even decide on a date they last saw him.
Shaun had no way of discerning how much money Worthington might have lost with the lack of real estate to back up his plans for the timeshares. It wasn’t the abandoned mines, or the proximity to the tourist town of Durango, or the rare private preserve inside a national forest Worthington coveted. Exactly. They decided he became obsessed with capitalizing on Bear’s hard work to build a large game hunting mecca, and the bands of wild horse
