When a Con-Man Raised the Stake

By Bo Widerberg

Detective Phil Hammond had to rush to the air-port to pick up his wife's parents, Burt and Alice. He was just able to get there in time when their plane from New York landed.Burt came carrying a large package under his arm, and Alice was pulling a small on wheel case. When Phil came and gave them a big hug, another passenger, looked at Burt, and said. "Have a nice time in Florida, and hope you find your daughter Ann and her husband are okay. Then this man walked down to where you pick up the big luggage. When Phil and his in-laws came down, this man Derek Smart was checking the name-tags on Burt's luggage. When he noticed the three coming down the staircase, he waved a hand at Burt and went outside to grab a Yellow cab. "That man was checking your luggage," said Phil looking at Burt. When coming home to the house where Ann was waiting for her parents, she told them the good news that she is expecting, and they would be a family of three in seven month. "What did the doctor say? Is it a boy or girl? Alice was all questions. "Do you know if it is a boy or a girl? "No, not yet. However I have to see the doctor tomorrow, then we can find out with the ultra-sound. When both Ann and Alice went to the doctor the following day. Ann was told she is expecting twins, a boy, and a girl. Ann's parents said that they are giving the twins five hundred thousand each, and an additional five hundred thousand to the parents. By this time the nice man at the airport, Derek Smart was at home with his brother Bill, telling him about the rich people he had met on the plane. "They are our golden egg," he said to Bill. But Derek we have agreed to leave Florida alone, and do the picking in New York. We are not after the local family, we are after the New Yorker's, the people with money. When Bill said he wasn't interested, Derek contacted his old friend Luke. And after explaining the deal, Luke was interested and was willing to help with the deal. When they found out that Ann was pregnant, and was expecting twins, they decided that now was the time. As they went to kidnap Ann, they saw that both New Yorker's and the father left in a car they put their plan to work. As they got Ann with her mouth taped, and when they were carrying her out to the car, they where met by seven police men, and where arrested for kidnapping.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bo Widerberg
• Release date: Apr 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310567865

Bo Widerberg

My name is Bo Widerberg/artbcool, I am born in Europe too many years ago. Have lived with my family in Florida since 1985 and we are happy with our situation. Would feel a lot better if more people would read my stories.

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When a Con-Man

Raised the Stake

by

Bo Widerberg

All characters in this story are fictitious,

and any resemblance to real people

living or dead, is coincidental.

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Love you honey got to run, Phil shouted to his wife as he ran out to his car. He had to pick up Ann’s parents at the airport, and by his own estimate, he was already ten minutes late. And it looked like rain today, he thought. Love you too! She called back.

Phil Hammond, a former police officer that had been given an early retirement after a burglar shot him in his right shoulder. He is close to six feet tall, a strong and powerful man with dark short cut hair, light brown eyes, and a strong facial expression. He is always clean-shaven, and dresses in nice modern clothing’s his wife Ann picks out for him.

Ann Hammond is a petite woman, the bell of the neighborhood, and loved by everyone. She has blond wavy hair down just past her shoulders, baby blue eyes and a light complexion. She has a nice figure that she loves to show off in revealing colorful dresses. And as Phil is so much taller, she wears bright colored high heel shoes, which enhance her legs.

Now Phil was taking the fast route through the interstate. A bit longer yes but faster, he hoped the traffic this early in the morning. Well, after the morning commute, but still an hour before the lunch crowd, would give him the extra time he needed.

When he arrived at the airport, only a few minutes before the plane was expected to arrive, it made him feel much better. He drove the car right in to the valet parking station to save time, and then he rushed through the door to look for the incoming planes. When he looked up at the board, he quickly saw that the plane from New York had arrived on time.