Hide Away (A Rachel Marin Thriller) by Pinter Jason

Author:Pinter, Jason [Pinter, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2020-02-29T16:00:00+00:00

As they were leaving J&J Accounting, Serrano called Lieutenant George on his cell phone.

“This is George.”

“Lieutenant, it’s Serrano.”

“Detective. What do you have for me?”

“Get this. Earlier today, we spoke with Sam Wickersham, Constance Wright’s alleged lover, who testified to an affair and helped blow up her marriage and career. Well, turns out Mr. Wickersham may not have been fully forthcoming in his sworn testimony.”

“How so?”

“He was paid nearly half a million dollars to create a false affair. Bank records show three payments of a hundred and sixty grand apiece deposited into Wickersham’s Bank of America account. He also claims Wright’s phone was cloned, which is where all those dirty texts on her end came from.”

“Jesus. Who paid Wickersham off?”

“That’s where it gets interesting,” Serrano said. “Wickersham never met anybody in person but still has records from the phone calls he received to help him fabricate the allegations. The phone number is registered to an Albatross LLC. There’s just one problem: there is no Albatross LLC. It’s a shell company whose only purpose, it seems, was to provide cover for those payments. Now, we traced the payments to Wickersham from an account in the Cayman Islands. And with their banking laws, it’ll be near impossible to trace those accounts back to anyone.”

“OK. Tell me you have some good news.”

“Good and bad. The good news is that Albatross leased an office in a building owned by an accounting firm called J&J. J&J confirms they leased out the space . . . and you’ll never guess who signed off on the paperwork.”

“Don’t tease me.”

“Caroline Drummond.”

“Caroline Drummond . . . is that any relation to . . .”

“Nicholas Drummond’s sister.”

“So you’re telling me Nicholas Drummond’s sister leased space to a shell company whose sole purpose was to help destroy the life of her brother’s wife.”

“And I thought I had issues with my in-laws. Now, the name on the lease for Albatross is a Walter Mackey, but Walter Mackey is a retired octogenarian. His identity was stolen to create the LLC.”

“Where is Caroline Drummond now?”

“That’s where this gets tricky,” Serrano said. “Turns out Ms. Drummond took a somewhat unexpected sabbatical, which happened to begin one month before Constance Wright was killed. According to the J&J CFO, Dorothy Givens, she’s somewhere in Italy with no return date.”

“Doesn’t sound like you think Ms. Drummond’s travel timeline is a coincidence.”

“I do not. I think somebody had a feeling this was all going south, and Albatross is trying to tie up loose ends. Caroline Drummond getting out of the country is part of that.”

“Can we extradite her?”

“Not yet. We have enough to charge Sam Wickersham with fraud and perjury, but that’s about it right now. Wickersham said he doesn’t know who’s behind Albatross, so we wouldn’t be able to get much by offering him a deal in exchange for turning state’s evidence. But somebody wanted Constance Wright’s life to go up in flames in the worst way. And it appears her ex-husband and his sister were in on it.”

“Are you going after Nicholas Drummond?”

“Not just yet.

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