Chapter Ten
Your Eyes
Midweek:
"You know one might think that you would be out enjoying those newfound legs of yours instead of sitting behind your computer," she said coming in from work.
He smiled; it was the type of smile that made her worry, "Remember how we talked about going to the country?"
"You mean the dizzying heights you made me forgo for Cape Haven?"
"We did good in Cape Haven," he defended.
"We almost died. Now is this a trip to the country for dizzying heights or an Eyes Only thing?"
"Not really an Eyes Only thing…Your eyes thing."
Max leaned against the desk, "You found out about Lydecker's wife?"
"So far all I've got is Julia Christine Matthews Lydecker. Year of birth same as Lydecker's."
"1968?"
He nodded, not even bothering to acknowledge she remembered, for Max it wasn't an accomplishment "Married same month he joined the army." He looked down at the print out and then back up at Max, "This part's pretty interesting, considering it wasn't in Lydecker's army file, 1987 they had a kid."
"You're kidding?"
He shook his head, "Matthew Donald Lydecker, born January 15th 1987."
"She was pregnant in high school?"
"Looks that way."
"What happened to him?"
"Died December 19th 1992."
"Less than a month away from his 6th birthday," Max's voice was barely a whisper. "What happened?"
"Genetic disorder. Came from Lydecker's side."
"He wasn't kidding about not wanting to pollute our gene pool. Did we find out how she died?"
"All I have is unknown assailant broke into their summer cabin on July 8th 1995. He came home to find her dead."
"No leads?"
"Oh now see this is were it gets kinda good, she was involved in manipulating genes to prevent illness. It was highly top secret then, everyone thought she was doing normal drug research."
"So what, you think Lydecker was working for the people who killed his wife? That he killed her?"
"Well I don't think he killed her, I don't think he had any idea what she was doing at work, in fact I think what she was doing back then was illegal or at least the FDA wasn't aware of what was going on. Not the kind of thing you tell the all American boy."
Max groaned, "Why did you just describe Lydecker as the All-American Boy?"
"Came from a military family as far back as I can trace, every living male served and rose through the ranks quickly. Was QB for his high school football team, course they weren't anything to talk about. Married his high school sweetheart, had son partly named after him, was awarded every type of medal given to the living, his record was spotless."
"Until the year after she died?"
He nodded
"How did you find all this out?"
"May 31st, one day before the pulse an exposé came out by this guy Milton Bradford, uncovered all of Kleinfold's dirty little secrets."
"But then the pulse hit and everything was chaos."
Logan nodded, " Milford also only lived for 5 days after the pulse, his death was blamed on the looting and rioting."
Max suddenly smiled, "This is so totally an Eyes Only thing underneath it all."
Logan tried to remain straight faced, "It may turn out to be something Eyes Only would like to expose, but, first and foremost it's about getting answers."
"Answers about what?"
"Whose eyes you have."
