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Chapter 97: Viktor Hale

ผู้เขียน: Charis Jackson
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Dante.

I was in the car when the file came through.

Parked two blocks from Xena's building, engine off, phone in my hand. I'd been sitting there since she called. Not because I didn't believe her — I told myself that on the drive over and told myself that again when I walked out and told myself that a third time sitting in this car and the thing about telling yourself something three times is that by the third time you're aware you're doing it.

I opened the file.

Read it once. Start to finish,
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    Axel."They've got to be shitting me."I said it to the windscreen because there was nobody else in the car to say it to. Herald was in the passenger seat looking at Gerald's calendar on his phone and had been looking at it since we left Adrian's building and hadn't said a word. I'd been driving for eleven minutes in the silence of a man who didn't know what to do with the person sitting next to him.To be fair I hadn't known what to do with this situation since Dante called.We need Herald. Tonight. As Adrian. Placing Harlow at a Covenant dinner eight months ago.I'd been in the room when Dante said it. Standing in the doorway of the study — the same doorway I'd backed out of twenty minutes earlier. Dante had said it. I'd thought about the last twelve hours. Decided this was apparently the kind of operation we were running now.Then Xena said call Adrian. Dante called. Adrian picked up and said he's sitting across from me right now. I thought good great wonderful. Then Dante looked

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 103: Four Hours To Midnight

    Xena.My phone pinged.I looked at it. Yale Industries board filing — validation window modified. Original window: 48 hours from submission. Updated window: expedited review requested by secondary claimant. New deadline: midnight tonight."Dante."He was already reading it over my shoulder."Victor moved it," he said."He knows," I said."He knows something shifted." Dante straightened. "He doesn't know what we have. If he knew what we had he'd have done more than accelerate the filing.""Accelerating the filing is enough," I said. "We have four hours. Axel's investigator has been working on Harlow for eighteen months but we need something usable tonight not eventually."I called Axel.He picked up on the second ring."I saw it," he said."Tell me you have something on Harlow.""My investigator has been building a case for eighteen months," he said. "Harlow's firm has been filing succession claims on behalf of entities that don't legally exist. Shell companies with no registered direc

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 102: The Weight Of Silence

    Victor.Harlow called at 7:23.Not the scheduled check-in. The scheduled check-in was tomorrow morning, eight o'clock, the standing arrangement we'd maintained for fourteen months without variation. Harlow calling at 7:23 on an unscheduled line meant something had moved.I answered on the first ring."Someone's been asking about the firm," Harlow said. No greeting. "Due diligence. Deep due diligence. The kind that goes back eighteen months and doesn't stop at the public filings."I looked at the window."When did it start," I said."This afternoon. My compliance officer flagged it an hour ago. Whoever is running it has access to court records that aren't publicly indexed and knows which questions to ask in which order." A pause. "This isn't a routine check, Victor. This is someone who knows what they're looking for.""Do you have a name?""Not yet. The requests came through three different intermediaries. Professional." Another pause. "I thought you should know before I do anything ab

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 101: The Ticket

    Axel.I sat in the stairwell.Not because there was nowhere else to go — the building had a lobby, a car park, three floors of corridor I could have walked down without running into anyone. I sat in the stairwell because the stairwell was the first place I'd stopped moving.The key was still in my hand.I looked at it.Dante's house key. He'd given it to me six weeks ago when the alliance started and the operation needed me available at hours that didn't correspond to normal access. I'd been using it for six weeks without thinking about what it meant to have it. It was operational. Keys were operational.I put it in my jacket pocket.The stairwell was quiet. One flight up, through a door, down a hallway, in a study — two people who weren't looking at the Viktor Hale chain on the laptop anymore. I knew what I'd walked into. I'd understood it before that, if I was being honest.I'd understood it for a long time.Jakarta.The ticket had been sitting on my desk for four days before I put

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 100: You Terrify Me

    Xena.The door opened at 6:14.I'd been sitting at the desk with Cross's documents on one screen and Viktor Hale's paper trail on the other and the forty eight hour clock somewhere underneath all of it and I hadn't moved since I ended the call with Dante.Dante walked through the door.He looked at me first. Not at the screens, not at the documents, not at the Viktor Hale chain still open on the laptop. At me. Direct. His jaw loose. His eyes not moving away.I looked back at him."Sit down," I said.He sat beside it. Close enough that the screens were visible to both of us without either of us having to turn away from each other to see them.Neither of us looked at the screens."The file," I said."I read it," he said. "Twice.""And.""And Viktor Hale registered as a legal consultant in Chicago in 1981 and built forty years of infrastructure and inserted himself into my operation in 2009 and I've been running everything he wanted me to run ever since." He looked at the desk. "I know.

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 99: The Call

    Herald.I sat in the car for three minutes before I dialed.Not because I wasn't sure. Because I wanted to be sitting down when I heard his voice for the first time.Adrian Yale's number was in Gerald's contacts under a name that wasn't Adrian Yale. Gerald had been careful about that. I had the number. I had the calendar. I had the Harlow connection and the succession filing and forty years of architecture that had been built on the assumption that Adrian Yale was the fixed point everything else moved around.He wasn't the fixed point. He was just the man Gerald had started with before he decided he needed something better.I called.Four rings. Then:"Who is this?"His voice.I'd heard it before — in recordings Gerald kept, in rooms where Adrian had been on the phone and I'd been close enough to the wall to hear both sides. I knew the flatness of it, the way he compressed his sentences when he was already ahead of whoever was talking to him.I knew his voice the way I knew everything

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 36: You Don't Even Know Your Own Family

    Dante.I pulled up at the abandoned driveway. Looking out the window, I immediately cursed under my breath.I hadn't seen this place since I was a kid. The buildings had overgrown weeds. Some already climbing the walls.Even a blind man would obviously sense the loneliness of the surroundings. "Th

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 35: Stay Away From Dante.

    Xena."It's me Xena."My eyes went wide.“ Dad?”There was silence on the other end. For a brief second, no one spoke, not a single word was said.I stood in Dante's study. We hadn't contacted each other since Adrian's promotion ceremony.“Darling I—” he pauses then heaves a sigh. “How are you doin

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 5: I Had Married A Dead Man 

    Xena.The ceiling in Dante's room was different from the one in the guest room.I noticed that first, which probably said something about the state of my brain. I stared at it and waited for regret to arrive.It didn't.What arrived instead was a very thorough physical awareness of every decision

  • Married To My Ex-Husband's Uncle   Chapter 4: Will You Satisfy Me?

    Xena.The night air hit me the moment we stepped outside and I realized it was the first clean breath I'd taken in hours.Dante's car was already waiting. The long black car didn't need a logo to tell one it cost fortunes. A driver stood at the rear door without being summoned and I got in without

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