A Perfect Cover by Tan Maureen

Author:Tan, Maureen [Tan, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-08-29T05:00:00+00:00

By the time the kitchen was cleaned up, my workday was almost at an end. I waited impatiently for the twins to arrive so that I could go home. I wanted to phone Beauprix and tell him what I’d witnessed. And I wanted to draw each of the men as soon as possible, knowing that it would require all my skills to make them appear as individuals.

Undoubtedly, I’d discovered the body of the viper. Now I needed to collect evidence, to build a case against them. And to begin searching for the head.

At exactly 4:00 p.m., one of the twins called. I answered the phone, endured a snotty comment, then passed the phone to Mr. Yang. Amazing, I thought, that such pleasant people could have such miserable children. A few minutes later, Mr. Yang hung up the phone and turned to me to deliver the bad news. The twins, it seemed, would be late. And he needed me to continue working. Please.

I could understand why he hadn’t insisted the girls come into work when they didn’t want to. Certainly I wouldn’t have wanted to deal with their temperaments after the traumas of the day. And I wondered if he feared, as I did, that one of the Young Businessmen would be back before the restaurant closed. To collect.

So I stayed.

Mrs. Yang, apparently anticipating the same problem I had, tucked a hundred dollars in twenties beneath the tray in the cash drawer.

“If they come back,” she said to her husband, “you pay. Understand?”

He didn’t argue with her.

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