Bad Ballers: A Contemporary Sports Romance Box Set by Bishop S.J

Author:Bishop, S.J. [Bishop, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2018-01-19T16:00:00+00:00

17

Law

Mia Mathers was in deeper than anyone could have imagined. Not only had she been working as an accountant for a small firm in Miami, but she’d been working as an accountant for the Solanos. She’d kept meticulous records of her transactions, taking photographs of pages and screenshots of transactions. Gwen and I did the math and, based on a translation of some of her short hand and looking at her Excel sheets and her Word notes, it looked as if Gwen had, over a period of time, stolen about 6.4 million dollars directly from the Solanos’ accounts. And the Solanos had so many accounts that stealing six million hadn’t seemed to put a dent in the numbers. Mia had cooked their books.

But it was what she had been doing with the money that had perplexed me. She hadn’t just been holding the funds. She’d had plans to donate the money to charities. The bank hadn’t been lying to Gwen when it had told her that the money had come in earmarked for charities. We found emails between Mia and at least twenty different local and national charities, pledging sums that amounted in total to 1.2 million dollars. Based on her bank statements, she’d already given away about 400,000 dollars.

“I can’t believe your sister would do something like this,” I said. Stealing six million dollars and making it look like nothing was a feat in and of itself, but stealing from the Solano crime family… “Why on earth would she do something like this?”

Mia was playing Robin Hood. But the real question was why?

Gwen was shaking her head. She’d gone pale and kept staring at one particular printout of a screen shot. Mia had annotated the Solano’s shorthand; for every system of initials, she’d translated, writing “Cocaine,” next to the letters SYSP and “slots” beside QTM.

“Because of our dad,” said Gwen after a moment, so quietly I barely heard her. I waited. Gwen almost never spoke about her father. Fred Mathers was a taboo subject. I knew a bit about him, of course. I’d picked up enough things from Gwen over the years to know that their father, like their mother, had been mentally unstable, that he’d abused drugs and died of a cocaine overdose.

“What about him?” I asked, gently.

“He was a gambler and an addict; he would gamble his paychecks away almost as soon as he earned them. And what he didn’t lose gambling, he’d spend on drugs. He’d gamble in Solano clubs and snort Solano cocaine. One time, he couldn’t pay back what they’d loaned him, and they broke his arm, beat him up… He died of an overdose when I was ten and Mia was eight. In high school, when Mia started dating Val Solano and my mother found out… that was when she told us. She told us about who the Solanos were and what they’d done to our father. How he’d left us in financial ruin…”

Gwen shook her head. “Mia broke up with Val almost immediately.

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