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“Okay, first of all, I had already planned on turning in my resignation.” He opens his main drawer and pulls out his own version of a resignation letter. “You two can serve as my witnesses and you can take it to the board personally,” he says, scrawling his name at the bottom and dating it. “As for this settlement offer, I am going to take this to my attorney and let him handle the negotiation process. One hundred million might be feasible, but beyond that would be like getting blood from a turnip.”
“That will be between you and the SEC, I guess,” Mandy says nonchalantly. “I’ll leave this case file with you, just in case you didn’t receive the one that The Ghost stole from me yesterday.” She slides it across the desk to him.
“Who stole what from you?” he asks, his pupils obviously dilating. “I have no idea what the fuck are you talking about.”
“Oh I know,” I take over the reigns from Mandy. “You know nothing about us being attacked or Bill or Tyler or Dad… It was all orchestrated by Carly and now she is dead too.”
“Carly’s dead?” he asks with a convincingly shocked look on his face. “What happened?”
“Seriously? I’m not stupid,” I snub him. “If you seriously don’t know, then you’ll have to give Agent Mitchell a call at the FBI. I know he’s planning on following up with you anyway.”
“Hey, I know you think there is some kind of conspiracy going on between Carly and me, but you’re wrong!” He runs his hand through his hair and begins pacing behind his desk. “She went off the fucking rails after Victor cut her out of his will and had that ludicrous pre-nup drawn up. I didn’t have a fucking thing to do with any of it.”
“I know,” I reply condescendingly. “All the payments came from her account and now she’s dead. Case closed.” I pick up the resignation letter from his desk and turn toward the door. Mandy gives me a puzzled look, but follows me in silence.
“I know you guys don’t believe me, but its true,” Tommy reiterates, seeming to need some type of acknowledgement from us. “I had nothing to do with any of the attacks.”
Placing my hand on the door handle, I look back at him one last time. “Just like you didn’t abandon Liv in Monaco or get Vanessa pregnant or fuck over Bill and his family?” I pause to let me words sink in. “I know you are completely innocent, Tommy. What’s done is done.”
With that, I pull open the door, allowing Mandy to exit ahead of me. “I honestly wish I never had to see your face again.”
“I wouldn’t count on that,” he hisses at me like a wounded alley cat. See you on the other side, Tommy.
Mandy
Part of me is elated by the fact that we rendered Tommy nearly speechless. I know Trey is glad to have his resignation letter in hand, but I can’t help feeling that he is getting off way too easy for all that he has done. I know how backed up the SEC is right now and even though this is a big deal for Bill’s family, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the multitude of cases that are already pending at the agency. Everything else seems to have been neatly pinned on Carly, who is now missing.
“Based on what I heard, I’ll give you the knockout,” Anthony declares, slapping Trey on the shoulder. “Where to next?”
“I just have to drop off his resignation letter and then we can skip town for a few days.” We walk right past the receptionist, whose jaw dropped from Trey mentioning the resignation letter.
“You and I have to sign this quick and then I can leave it with Tabitha in HR,” Trey says, pulling out a pen and handing it to me. “I’ll have to set up a call with the board to see if they have any ideas for an interim CEO. Investors aren’t going to be happy to hear about another shakeup at the top.”
After signing, we wait in the hallway while Trey goes in to drop off the letter. I glance down at my phone and see it’s just past one o’clock. “Shit! We forgot about Marvin!” Anthony gives me a funny look not immediately placing the name. “Marvin Lewis, the guy from the bench in front of the bank,” I reiterate.
“Oh shit, I forgot all about that dude,” he replies, scrunching up his face. “We’ve had too much going on since then.”
“We have to go to the bank,” I tell Trey as soon as he returns. “We forgot about Marvin and I feel really bad about it.”
“I knew there was somewhere we were supposed to be at noon, but between Vanessa and Tommy, my mind has been mush,” he replies, taking me by the hand and leading us to the elevator.
