One Last Thing by Kim Baldwin

Author:Kim Baldwin [Baldwin, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Thessaloniki, Greece

TQ paced her suite with the phone in her hand. “Well, that’s just brilliant.” She fumed at the setback. “That’s what you get when you work with moronic amateurs,” she said to Thanos, the skinny one of her pair of goons and the man responsible for contacting and hiring the second bosun.

“He’s worked for Lykourgos for seven years. He was our safest bet,” the man replied.

The icon was slipping through her fingers with every second that passed. “We need to come up with something fast, because I’m not going to leave without it, and you’re not going to live if I don’t get it.”

“I have something in mind,” he offered hesitantly.

“My patience is wearing thin, so get on with it. What is it?”

“An exchange.”

“For?”

“His daughter.”

“That ungodly creature.” TQ liked the idea of anything bad happening to that icy bitch.

“He’ll do anything for her. And it’s not like he can run to the police. What’s he going to tell them?”

“He’ll never confess to being behind the theft of the icon,” TQ mumbled to herself.

“It would destroy him. So, we take the girl and contact him right afterward. Tell him he can have her back if he agrees to cooperate.”

“Don’t spell everything out. This is not prime-time TV.”

“Sorry.”

“If you in any way involve or even so much as imply my name…” She let the threat go unfinished, so he could imagine the worst.

“Yes, I know.”

“I want that icon on my desk in forty-eight hours.”

“It’ll be there.”

“Not if you’re still on the phone. Move it!” she shouted.

TQ had to trust that these idiots knew what they were doing, because she didn’t have a choice. Neither did she have the array of helpers and contacts she did back in the States. Here in Greece, she had only two men to rely on, and that made her nervous.

A tiny part of her wanted to forget the whole thing and leave, but quitting wasn’t what had gotten her this far up the ladder. She’d become too powerful and feared to back down from a challenge this trivial. And what an addition this relic would be to her collection. She already had one of the world’s largest, but this one would put her in first place. The prospect made her almost giddy. “Girl!” she shouted.

Her Asian Cyclops came running to her side, like a well-trained dog. “Madam?”

“Where have you been cowering?”

“I have been polishing your jewelry, as you instructed. I am almost finished.”

TQ laughed. “Are you, now?”

“Yes, Madam.”

TQ bent to the smaller woman’s height. “Would you like the rest of the day off to roam this wonderful city? It’s hot enough to remind you of your lice-infested country.”

The servant’s smile at the question was so broad she looked like the Joker. “Yes, Madam. I would like that very much.”

“Hmm, I thought so.” TQ smiled, enjoying the torture, and sat at the desk.

“Can I go now, Madam?” the girl asked expectantly.

TQ laughed so hard she had tears in her eyes. “You stupid cow.” She laughed harder.

“Madam?”

“Why in my name would I let you do that?”

“I don’t—”

“Start polishing from the beginning.

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