Tricks and Traps (Gray Spear Society Book 7) by Siegel Alex

Author:Siegel, Alex [Siegel, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781300892014
Published: 2013-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Tawni and Smythe followed Marina back to Wilman's office.

He looked like a different man than the one from before. His hair was unkempt and his eyes were bloodshot. His expensive, black jacket was lying on the floor.

"You got here quickly," he said.

Marina nodded. "We were looking around the casino."

"All the details are here." He shoved a piece of paper across the desk. "I wrote down everything I know about the monkey machines, which isn't much."

"Who is the vendor?"

"I never got his name or number. I met him just once."

She sat across from Wilman. "Strange. How do you do business with him?"

"Every month or so, one of his associates meets me. I never know ahead of time, and it's never the same man twice. They just show up and take orders for new machines."

"Sounds shady."

"Everything about this is shady," he said.

"Do you pay for the machines on the spot?"

He shook his head. "The money transfer is done separately."

"How?" she said.

"There is a hedge fund named Golden Spiral Investments. We just deposit the money in our account there."

"And somebody else transfers it out?"

"No," he said. "The account loses value over time until the money is gone."

She furrowed her brow. "I don't get it."

"All I know is we've put a hundred million dollars in that fund, and only two million is left. It's a great tax write-off. The account numbers are here." He tapped the paper.

"Sounds like a money laundering scam. Why did you engage in such an obvious criminal undertaking?"

"We were desperate. The competition in the gambling business is brutal these days. It seems like a new casino pops up every week, and there are a thousand unregulated internet sites. Those monkey machines saved this casino from bankruptcy and turned it into a profitable enterprise. They earned me a very nice Christmas bonus."

He put his face in his hands and shuddered. Tawni wondered if he was about to cry.

Marina took the paper and put it in her pocket. "You met the man behind all this once. Can you describe him?"

"Very handsome. Sharp dresser. Sociable. Brown hair, brown eyes. He had some big, tough bodyguards with beards."

"Russians?"

He stared at her. "They had Russian accents. How did you know?"

"We're not completely clueless. Is there anything else you can remember?"

"No." He shook his head. "That meeting was years ago, and it wasn't long. He gave us two free monkey machines to get us started. They were early models, but they still made money like crazy from the first day. We've been snapping them up ever since."

"Do you have any idea why they're so incredibly popular?"

"They're possessed."

She raised her eyebrows. "Really?"

"That man is the Devil. I sold my soul for a Christmas bonus. I sold a lot of souls that day."

"Let's not get carried away."

"Are we done?" he said. "I have no more information."

She stood up. "For now."

"Good."

He reached into a desk drawer and took out a gun. Before anybody could stop him, he jammed the barrel into his mouth and pulled the trigger. His brains splattered across the wall.

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