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“I have to admit that your initial suspicions of Tommy appear to be the most plausible,” he replies, without taking his eyes from the white board. “I don’t understand why he would kill Bill though, when he could’ve stuck to the plan and absorbed it into Addison Media.”
“Bill had too much of a conscience,” I speculate. “Even though it would be a relatively small hit for Addison Media to take, it’s not something he would allow to happen as long as he was Chairman of the board. If it ever got out, his reputation would have been destroyed. I think that’s why he went to the SEC.”
“Because he cared that much about his reputation?” Anthony scrunches up his face like he doesn’t understand my point.
“He worked hard and did the right things for forty years which made him a very wealthy man,” I explain. “Why would he want to jeopardize everything he had worked for just to give Tommy a short cut to the top?” I walk over to the diagram and circle Bill’s name. “Out of desperation he may have initially gone along with the plan, but in the end he couldn’t go through with it. At that point, he became the ultimate liability.”
“So, he was taken out, but it was a little too late because he had already dropped off the evidence at the SEC,” Anthony adds.
“It appears that way. Did The Ghost show up at all?” I ask, knowing that they had notified all trauma centers, in addition to Agent Mitchell putting out an APB on him.
“Nah, I knew he would disappear back into his rat hole,” Anthony replies, picking up his phone and checking for messages. “I’m sure he has an underground doctor somewhere who fixed him up. Although, I think he needed quite a bit of reconstruction this time.”
“Well, when we meet with Tommy, I’m going to propose a settlement,” I tell him. “If we can work out a settlement agreement that the SEC will agree to and get him to resign from Addison Media, then we can all get back to our lives.”
“So you are going to let him get away with murder?” Mandy asks bluntly, emerging from the bedroom.
“Not at all.” I smile at the thought of what I have been scheming while I was supposed to be sleeping. “Since he seems to be a fan of Russian agents, I’m thinking of using a couple techniques used by the old KGB in Siberia.”
Anthony’s eyes immediately light up, as he knows the types of tactics I am referring to. “So you think you can take the law into your own hands?” Mandy asks, seeming much less excited about the prospects.
“Just trust me,” I assure her, handing a slip of paper to Anthony. “You will like the end result. He threatened our lives yesterday and he will pay dearly for that indiscretion.”
“I know exactly who to call on this,” Anthony says, after looking over the brief sketch and details of what I want. “If you want the real deal it’ll take a week or so to get them, because they would need to be custom made.” His eyes catch mine as he reveals a shit eaten grin.
“I want at least four of them and they can be fake,” I clarify. “But they have to look and seem like the real deal.”
“I have no idea what you two are up to, but I’m probably better off not knowing,” Mandy huffs. “I don’t want to end up in trouble over this.”
“Just trust. That’s all I’m going to say,” I reassure her, pulling her to me. “By the way, if Tommy takes the bait this afternoon, we are taking off this evening to go visit your father. I could use a little fresh air and sunshine. He wants your help going through your mother’s stuff, so it would be good to visit.”
“I agree,” she says reflectively. Everything has been moving so fast that I know Mandy hasn’t taken any time to grieve. It will be good for her to go through things with her dad.
“I’ll be going with as well,” Anthony insists, his eyes letting us know that it’s not negotiable.
“Hey, after yesterday I’m thinking about hiring you permanently,” I reply with a chuckle.
Mandy
The fact that Trey won’t share his plan with me tells me that it’s something I won’t approve of doing. Even though it annoys me, I have to trust him like he said. After all, it’s his father who was killed and his brother who was poisoned. If it had been my family, no one would be able to talk me out of a plan for revenge either. I stop for a moment to reflect upon how much things have changed since the day I first stepped on his jet. Almost nothing is the same as it was that day. It’s scary to think of how fast things can change in this world.
