14
“You hired Julie? Are you nuts?” In the hangar, Tobias sorted through the drill bits, searching for the right size for the shelf he was putting up. “Last week you were afraid to talk to her. Now she’s going to be doing our QuickBooks?”
“I wasn’t afraid. I just wasn’t ready.”
“So what changed?”
“Everything, essentially.” Ben filled Tobias in on Julie’s story, or at least the parts of it that weren’t too private. Tobias listened with a dark frown gathering on his forehead. When he was finished, Tobias pressed the trigger of the drill with an ominous whine.
“So, Dad’s murderer scared her off, that’s the theory?”
“It’s possible. Someone did, and there’s a good chance it was the killer. That would really be something if she helps us catch him after all this time.”
Tobias fitted the bi
