I started down another branch of the red outlined tree. Bank accounts. Certain numbers would highlight and then new pages would pop up. The money trails went to other banks and trusts. The money was labeled as anything under the sun, but it was blood money. When a trail culminated with a person a rap sheet popped up. All of them were killers.
The man I had killed popped up. He was a recent hire. This had been his first job and he had botched it by being impatient. All the money traced back to the acquisitions Department of Raton Pharmaceutical and was stretched out over a period of seventeen years.
John Lazak's path to the top had been paved in blood and there was no doubt left in me that Anna had simply been the last of an already morbidly long string of uninvestigated murders. I looked at Kevin, who was watching me.
"Why?" I asked.
He pointed to some more thumbnails and I scrolled over them. One was a traffic camera, which showed the entire scene unfold of me stopping the ambulance and taking out the SUV and its occupants.
There were other videos of me from my past that I had thought gone unnoticed or long forgotten. I looked back at Kevin feeling a little shaken as to the glimpse into my own violent life. I think I got the message. I could protect his mother.
I was doing just that already. Kevin reached out a hand to me and I took it. He trusted me. I suppose that was explanation enough. He had done an unfathomable amount of deductive reasoning and fact-finding all in the course of a single night to keep his mom safe.
I had thought his potential for greatness was unusually high, little had I known that greatness was already his. I would need to protect him as much as his mother. Perhaps in his own way he had guessed as much.
The bedroom door opened and Anna stepped out smiling sheepishly in a bathrobe. Upon her appearance Kevin's finger snaked out turning the monitor off. His mother could have no clue other than the ones I had given her as to just how advanced Kevin actually was. He seemed to like it that way and for now I was willing to go along with it, but she would need to know at some point.
"I'm sorry! That spa shower is so nice and I had to shave my legs and well I just lost track of time."
I straightened back up and shrugged, "No big deal."
Her gaze turned curious, "What have you two been up to? Has Kevin been showing you one of his games?"