Reduced Ransom! by Mike Faricy

Author:Mike Faricy [Faricy, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 57

“Children aren’t allowed in here. Get out,” Torsten Theisen yelled at the two young boys entering his outer office carrying skateboards.

“We got us a delivery,” one of them said.

“What do you mean a delivery?”

“Man give us this package, said we was to bring it here to the address what’s on the front. Then this here Mr. Torsten, he gonna give us ten dollars, each,” the shorter of the two said.

“Look, I don’t know what the two of you think you’re trying to pull. Hmm-mmm, a package you say?” he said, focusing on the manila envelope they carried, suddenly interested.

“Yes, sir. Man told us to bring it right up here. Give it to this man here,” he pointed to Torsten’s name penned on the front of the envelope. “Soon as we get ten dollars.”

“Ten dollars?” Torsten exclaimed.

“Each,” the taller boy added, moving back a step.

“Okay, son, here’s for you,” he fished the last two bills from his wallet, thanking God they were tens and quickly snatched the envelope. “Now, run along.”

Twenty minutes later, he turned the recorder off after listening over and over again to the heart-breaking plea from Nikki Devereaux. Obviously, she was just holding on by a thread. He reread the written instructions demanding one hundred thousand dollars in twenties.

How had this happened? How had they found her? How had they been linked together, Torsten and Nikki? God, it couldn’t be his fault, could it? Not for the first time he shook his head and cursed the den of iniquity the capital city had become.

On the other hand, if he could get this mess off his plate, keep the whole thing quiet, keep his seat in the house, keep his unrelenting wife, Arliss, at bay, all for just a hundred grand, it was a bargain. The good Lord was watching over Torsten, that was for damn sure. A hundred grand? Goodness, he had that in campaign contribution cash stuffed in a safe up at the lake. Not in twenties, maybe, but that was a small matter, and if he left now, he could be back before morning.

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