Green-Eyed Monster by Gill Mcknight

Author:Gill Mcknight [Mcknight, Gill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kidnapping, Stockholm Syndrome, Contemporary, Romance, (v5.0), Fiction, Lesbian
ISBN: 9781602820425
Google: RyXl-XBlcpUC
Amazon: 1602820422
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Two days later, Victoria sat at her poolside table, reading the business pages and sipping a tall vodka and tonic. Her cell phone beeped. She checked the caller ID, then lifted it to her ear. “Ginette…And you’re certain…The cash definitely came out of Monaco as sterling…Then back to U.S. dollars. Wow, somebody’s trying to cover their trail. Okay, I want you to discreetly make inquiries. My guts say the Caribbean, too. Check out all the currency rates…No, the closer we get, the less I want my name used…Good.” The call ended.

She sat and watched the breeze ripple the surface of the pool.

Her net was slowly closing in on one Michaela Rapowski, aka Mickey. She smiled to herself. How droll. The casual nickname she had given her was perhaps the only honest thing between them.

She had instructed her lackeys to retrieve passport, immigration, family, insurance, educational information, anything they could find on the elusive Mickey Rapowski, though she doubted they’d find much. Ginette was following trails of sterling turned dollar out of the last depository they knew of in Monaco. Somewhere, with a little bit of luck, Mickey would eventually let her guard down and feel safe enough to start spending her ill-gotten gains.

Hopefully, they could pick up on it.

Sipping her drink, she allowed herself a small, appreciative smile. The double-cross was perfect, crystalline in its perfection now that she could see right through it. For the hundredth time she played the moves over in her mind.

Victoria now realized that coming out of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Mickey knew exactly who she wanted to target. Probably long before she even joined Victoria’s company, she must have been auditing Victoria’s darker dealings.

Playing on Ginette’s greed, she allowed herself to be ripped off, set up as a victim, and inveigled into Ginette’s criminal plan. She had actively helped Ginette with the finer points, making it seem like a team effort.

Victoria had smiled grimly at her own little maxim: There’s only ME and MEAT on my team. Seemed Mickey played the same game.

All Mickey had to do was make Victoria believe she wasn’t the intended kidnap victim. Then she could plant a seed that something was going wrong with the ransom payment and let Victoria think she was being double-crossed by Ginette. That part was easy because it was true.

Even when it all went pear shaped and Victoria had overpowered her, Mickey had stayed calm and let the game run on like a roulette wheel. Leaving the ball to drop where it may.

It landed well for her. Victoria had picked up on the finances moving around and panicked, as she was supposed to.

Mickey deliberately let Victoria witness the accounts Ginette had given her passes to being emptied, the money crossing the globe along the well-worn illegal routes Victoria knew like the back of her hand.

Her fears about Ginette’s sticky fingers were reinforced. All along, Mickey kept her off balance, playing on her fears that her tax evasion hoards were being siphoned off by Ginette.

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