What Billions Can't Buy by Diana Fyre & L.A. Witt

Author:Diana Fyre & L.A. Witt [Fyre, Diana & Witt, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GallagherWitt Publishing LLC
Published: 2025-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Geri and Quinn left Rich’s office in shell-shocked silence. They took the elevator down, and as soon as it let them out, they headed straight for the restaurant patio.

The tropical heat was a cool mountain breeze compared to the inside of the hotel, and Quinn couldn’t help the sigh of relief as he unsteadily took out his vape pen. Though the heat out here was far less overbearing than the suffocating stuffiness of the hotel, the humidity saturated his clothes. Sweat slicked his skin and rolled down the back of his neck in icy drops.

But the way his clothes stuck to his sweaty skin was the least unpleasant sensation at that moment. The air was too thick to breathe, and his lungs didn’t quite remember how to work anyway.

He and Geri hadn’t been in Rich’s office for long, but it was long enough. The man had casually laid out so many truths that Quinn was struggling to comprehend them all.

Though he’d never been particularly close to his parents, the realization that they’d both been murdered was impossible to stomach. That someone had killed them—along with the helicopter pilot and a family friend—as part of a brutal agenda, made him sick.

And now Quinn was in Rich’s crosshairs. And if he didn’t make it to the end of this, then Rich would go after Quinn’s heirs—his sister and her family.

And there was no getting out now. No claiming that golden ticket off the island. He and Geri were trapped here until the bitter end.

“My God, we’re so fucked,” he murmured to her as they smoked.

“We are.” She blew out some smoke. “I don’t think any of us are meant to survive this. Including whoever ‘wins.’”

“What do you mean?”

“Rich and his men are showing us their faces.” She gestured at the hotel’s upper floors where they’d met with him. “And now he just outright told us he killed your parents and my father. If we go back to the mainland and have someone look into their deaths, and they confirm it—I mean, it’s our word against his, but it’s still pretty damning. If they exhume my father and find evidence of thallium poisoning after Rich said that’s how he killed him…”

Quinn hadn’t thought his blood could get any colder. Turned out he was wrong. “And you’re right—he’s been showing us his face. They’ve all been showing us their real faces.” Raking an unsteady hand through his hair, he breathed, “They’re going to kill us and everyone else on this island.”

Geri shuddered, chafing her arms as if she were cold despite the heat. “If any of us leave, we can identify him and his men. We can blow this whole thing open.” She shook her head slowly. “I doubt we’re getting their real names—I mean, Rich Price? Seriously?—but we’ve seen their faces.” She paused for another drag off her cigarette. “I’ve heard people are actually really bad at identifying suspects from lineups and whatnot, but I’ll never forget that face. Never.”

“Same,” he whispered. “I’ll be able to pick him out at five hundred yards for the rest of my life.

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