It was over. That’s all that was important. And he couldn’t be happier.
The City of Angels was abuzz with the news of prominent businessman Thomas Rachett’s arrest in connection with a secret sex club he had apparently been running. Each day more tidbits would leak out about other illegal dealings he’d supposedly been involved in, threatening to bring down not only Rachett but several well-known politicians.
The Mole turned out to be even more helpful than Dani could have hoped. Within forty-eight hours of leaving Quinn, she had five sets of IDs, all with different names, and had crossed unmolested into Mexico.
Per the Mole’s suggestion, she had taken a circuitous route to her primary destination, allowing him to ensure she didn’t pick up any unwanted admirers. By the time she stepped off the plane in the Cayman Islands, a whole four days had passed since she had visited the silo.
She was up early that first morning, studying the appropriate page of her father’s notebook. At nine a.m., she put the book away, showered, dressed, and walked the five blocks from her hotel in George Town to the bank where the first account was kept.
The bank president personally handled everything for her, but even with his help it took all morning to finalize the transfer. That afternoon she repeated the process at bank number two.
The next day she was able to fit in three different institutions. And on the seventh day after she left Kansas, she visited the final four.
One would never know from the modest dinner she had that evening that she was now worth nine hundred and forty-eight million dollars. But her wealth would only be temporary. The money wasn’t really hers.
It belonged to the promise.
“There’s a book he keeps in the bottom level,” Marianne had explained. “Bank account numbers and passwords. His failsafe in case he needs to purge his digital copy. If I can’t get it, you have to.”
“I will,” Dani had said, though at that time, she hadn’t known how, if it came to it, she could possibly pull it off.
“And promise me you’ll use the money to help whoever he’s hurt. If I can’t, you’ll be the only one left.”
“I promise.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brett Battles is a Barry Award-winning author of over twenty novels, including the Jonathan Quinn series, the Logan Harper series, and the time hopping novel Rewinder. He’s also the coauthor, with Robert Gregory Browne, of the Alexandra Poe series. You can learn more at his website: brettbattles.com