Deception
Chapter 2
Beach House
Captain Lee Crane was resting on the lounge chair while his boys were upstairs studying. Their teachers had given Christopher and James homework for History and Math. Rose Marie was told to leave them alone and let them work out the problems for math and the reports for history.
She came downstairs after talking with the nanny Anna just arrived. Rose Marie heard the phone ring in the living area as she walked over to it before it woke her husband Lee Crane outside in the back yard.
"Crane resident, this is Rose Marie. How can I help you?" She says over the phone.
"Rose Marie, this is Doctor Jamieson. I need to speak with Lee it's extremely important something has happened." Doc said acting out his part of the plan looking down at the body on the rug of Nelson's office with a bullet to his chest.
"What's wrong Will?" Rose was able to pick up the tone of his voice over the phone. All of a sudden her heart started to beat quicker and her blood pressure rising.
"Admiral Nelson is dead Rose Marie, He was shot by someone when I heard the noise walking into the outer office to speak with Harriman. I wasn't able to see anyone unless the person went out the back window."
"OMG Doc! I will go wake Lee and have him talk to you. Please stay on the line for a moment." She dropped the phone onto the table to head out to wake her husband. She was shaking like a leaf with seeing her husband beginning to stir. "Lee, I am sorry to do this to you, Doctor Jamieson is on the phone with bad news."
"What's wrong?" Lee announced with getting up from the lounge chair and seeing the ashen face of his wife.
"Harriman is dead Lee, someone shot him in his office. Doctor Jamieson wants to talk with you on the phone." She states strongly with watching her husband move quickly to head inside the living area to pick up the phone. "Doc how could this happened?" Lee asked with exhaling with his lungs.
"I don't know Lee, I am here now in the office. I have called for security to check the grounds, along with a stretcher to take the body to the cooler in the medical center. I haven't been able to contact Harriman's wife no doubt she was supposed to be on her way back to Russia for a conference with her project team." Doc replied with wiping his brow with the sweat that had developed.
"I am coming to the office. Please stay where you're are. I need to figure this out Doc for the sake of the Institute and Admiral Nelson's family." Lee said with hanging up with Rose Marie in a state of shock.
"Let me go tell the nanny to watch the boys while we go see Doctor Jamieson at Admiral Nelson's office. Go get dress quickly Lee, while I gather things together for the ride." She walked upstairs to talk with the nanny and making sure the boys will be all right. Even though they had been studying, though now they were playing in the middle of the bedroom.
Lee dressed quickly with placing on his sweats and a shirt buttoned up along with sandals. He was going to use his Red Cobra instead of the station wagon.
A moment later Rose Marie came over to her husband seeing the pain on his face, along with the pain emotionally. "I am ready Lee.
Twenty minutes later having been stopped at the main gate. Lee and Rose Marie moved inside driving on over to Admiral Nelson's office. Security guards were all over the area checking the grounds for the killer of Admiral Nelson.
Lee parked the red Cobra in the parking lot in front not bothering to lock it. Moving out they headed inside with seeing the doctor, Chief Sharkey, Chip Morton, and the chief of security.
The body had been removed to the cooler. Lee and Rose Marie saw tears out of the eyes of Sharkey and Commander Morton. "Lee, I am so sorry about all this. I would have never thought the day will come to hear that Admiral Nelson was killed in his own office." Chip said with hugging his long-time friend.
Lee looked over at the doctor finishing up talking to the chief of security. "What happened Doc exactly?
"I don't know why it happened Lee. However, I had heard a shot fired when I walked into the outer office. Then the crash of a broken window thinking that the person who shot Harriman might have gone out that way. All I know now is the fact Admiral Nelson is dead and laying in the cooler."
"I will need to call ONI and speak with them. Maybe they will have some idea as to who might have done this to Admiral Nelson." Choking back a sob from mentioning his name.
"Lee, I will have someone drive me back to the beach house. Please call me later with any type of news from ONI or any other sources." Rose Marie says to her husband looking down at the bloodstain rug.