The Never Happened

CHAPTER 9: Secrets

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"This can't be! No. I'm sure this was just a fake voice message. Daire cannot possibly be involved with this man," I kept muttering, suddenly alert. What I read, was it true? Is this Brian that sent this voice message? Actually Brian Lord?

It was three in the morning. I held a small card in the light of my laptop. I had spent hours just finding this. The exact same card that I found in Daire's office that day. I still remember that when I was in the car with Rachel I told her about the various business cards that I found from Daire's office. When I was reading out the names on the cards for her she said that she didn't want details. I still remember it all very clearly. How she got irritated and was waiting for the important part. But maybe I didn't see it all this time. It was there all along. This was not just a minor detail, it was the whole story, it was the important part.

I don't even know why I kept these cards this long. I just did. I never intentionally did it, but still I kept these cards safely with me. Never knowing what the actually held within them.

I had looked up every site about him. He was a criminal. Not some obscure one, but a full on mafia criminal or whatever they call it! Sites were filled with his nonsense but nothing was there to help me out to communicate with him. Well I used the wrong word, just replace 'communicate' with 'kicking his ass.' But this card, it held just exactly what I was looking for, I just didn't know it. Brian Lord was the head of mafia. It was no easy task to locate him. But then from where did Daire get to know him?

It is not possible that Daire could know this man, was it? Daire could never know him. He was one of the most peaceful people I had ever seen. Not a keen lover of adventure either. He was a person who played it safe. So it was just next to impossible for him to know Brian lord, right?

Right?

Wrong. I was wrong.

I looked at the card again. It was not an ordinary business, obviously. I mean the head of mafia would definitely not be distributing printed business cards when the whole world is looking for him! But still that card definitely meant something. There was nothing printed on the card, but Daire had written on it himself. That was Daire's handwriting. I brushed my fingers over its smooth surface. The words on it seemed just so worthless, but they weren't. This is how it went-

2nd May - The Run for the Roses

16th May - The Run for the Black-Eyed Susan

6th June - The Test of the Champion

And I didn't have a single clue about what it could have meant. What the hell is this? Run for roses? What was this, Daire was celebrating Valentine's Day with this Brian guy, huh!

I had no idea what this meant and what I was supposed to do? Well maybe there was something that I could do - god aka internet!

I typed 'the run for the roses' on google and got various links in seconds. Dude, the people involved in inventing this surf engine should get a Nobel Prize!

Anyway, as I scrolled down this is what I found:

"Run for the Roses" (song), a 1980 song by Dan Fogelberg, included on the 1981 album The Innocent Age

Well, I was pretty sure that Daire was not going to sing a karaoke with Brian in a night club so I moved on. A good move on my part.

The 141st running of the Kentucky Derby was Saturday, May 2, 2015 with a $2 .... The Derby is frequently referred to as "The Run for the Roses."