Secret Letter to Lucas Stokes
Lucas,
I’ve sent this letter to you via courier for safety reasons. The bearer of this note is my half-sister, Aberdeen Conrad. She is to be shown every courtesy and respect you would give me. I have hired her as my personal courier.
I have decided to open a new division - Communications. To that end, I have, as you know, taken steps to create a newspaper here in Sitka Cove. Now, before you question my sanity, hear me out.
I believe that a local newspaper and accompanying website will feed into my plans for Sitka Cove quite nicely without anyone realizing what it truly is. Or, will be. I have already hired someone to manage it. Phillis Barrington. Yes, that is the correct spelling of her name. I’ll need you to have her added to the Management Roster and given the accompanying benefits.
There is no one here with the computer skills that I trust to build the website we discussed with the publicly inaccessible layers it needs to have.
You need to bring in Russell. Tell him to pack whatever clothes, books, video games, and manuals he cannot do without for an expected 5 months. He’ll go back for a month to satisfy border authorities, then return if he’s still needed here. Although it would be preferable to him, I’m sure to work remotely from Boston at that point.
He’ll have a work & living space set up in a secret location, cyber access to anyone outside Boone Industrial Group will be limited, of course. But you and I both know we have his full loyalty. You can tell him from me that we trust him, and his continued loyalty and silence will be handsomely rewarded, as I’m sure he has come to expect. Once he’s ready, fly him and his belongings up on the Ruby jet. He’ll need a valid passport, so make sure that’s arranged with all haste.
In fact, why don’t you come up for a few days too? Not only can I show you the best fishing of your life, I can show you around Sitka Cove, the new offices here, and my boldest business venture yet.
No, it is not the new division. This will be a surprise to even you, old friend.
Bring Aberdeen back with you. I’m sure the three of you will find something to discuss on the flight up.
Contact me with arrival details when all is arranged with Russell. The rest can wait until we talk face-to-face.
See you soon,
Damaris
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