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“The toxin?” he asks, suddenly looking more concerned.
“Polonium 210,” Crusher says with a sneer. “Type it into Google and you can read all about it. Since you’re an obvious fan of Russian agents, we used their favorite poison.”
“It’s 250,000 times more deadly than cyanide and one gram of it can kill as many as ten million people,” I add, causing his eyes to widen dramatically. “If you break the seal or go more than a mile beyond the detonator, the toxin will be released and you will be dead in a matter of minutes.”
“You can’t do that to him!” Vanessa protests. “Tommy didn’t kill your father.” She comes huffing toward me, as if she is planning to hit me. Anthony reaches out and grabs her by the arm, restraining her.
“Don’t worry Vanessa, I have one for you too,” I inform her. “But first, I have to know why my father was killed? I know he was an asshole, but that is no reason to murder him.”
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. “I only know what Carly told me, but apparently he was going to ruin everything,” she mutters.
“He found out that Tommy’s companies were unprofitable and was going to kill the deal?” I speculate.
“She hated how he always had to be in control,” she says softly. “Once he found the accounting issues, he no longer trusted her and then he drew up a ridiculous prenup. According to her, that was the final straw.”
I reach down into the box, pulling out an ankle bracelet for her. I slip it on her leg and adjust it for size, click the latch and pull the activation pin. “You’re all set,” I tell her, still completely blown away by how far she has fallen.
“I’m really sorry that I didn’t choose you, back when I had the chance,” she adds after hearing the sound of the bracelet activating.
“What’s done is done, right?” I stand up and give her one last hug. “I really hope you guys like this island and can all get along. Otherwise, it’s going to be a long life.”
“You really think this is funny, don’t you?” Tommy growls, narrowing his eyes and lunging toward me.
“You know… my father being killed, Tyler being poisoned, you stealing four hundred million from Bill and then killing him… none of it is funny,” I retaliate, going nose to nose with him. “This fucking bracelet on your ankle and you being stuck on this island for the rest of your life? A lot fucking funnier than any of those other things.”
“If you do this to us, you’ll never recover any of the money,” Tommy says, desperately trying to establish some sort of leverage against us.
“I’m not worried about the money,” I assure him. “I’ve got plans to use the resources at Addison Media to make it a profitable venture while letting the whole world know that you were nothing but a fraud.”
“I see there’s a satellite dish on the house, so at least you’ll be able to watch it on TV,” Mandy adds with a giggle.
“You’ll never get it to work,” he grumbles, cursing under his breath.
“It looks like we won’t be needing a bracelet for him,” Crusher adds, glancing over at The Ghost. “Today he became an actual ghost. I hope he haunts this fucking place.”
I take Mandy by the arm and we turn away, walking back in the direction from which we had come. I can hear chattering behind me as the Tommy and Vanessa drill Anthony and Crusher with question after question. Anthony can answer their questions; I’m done here.
“Are those bracelets really as deadly as you told them?” Mandy asks in a subdued tone once we are out of range. “Is that stuff even legal?”
“Anthony had a connection to get the poison, but no, it wouldn’t have been legal and it would have taken us a month to get the bracelets made,” I confess. “We are having a high definition surveillance camera installed on a cell tower that is straight across on Roatan. We will be able to check in on them at anytime. If they ever tamper with the bracelet or go out of range, we will be instantly notified.”
“What will you do if that happens?” she asks inquisitively.
“I haven’t decided yet,” I admit. “Tommy won’t have the balls to test it anyway and I can’t imagine Vanessa taking that chance either.” I smile and add, “I didn’t tell Tommy about the tracking device on his Rolex, because I wanted to save that as a backup.”
“Do you think Tommy used Carly right from the start?” she asks. “Knowing that she could get your dad or his contacts to buy his company?”
