Accessory: The Scarab Beetle Series: #4 (The Academy) by C. L. Stone

Author:C. L. Stone [Stone, C. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcato Publishing
Published: 2015-08-24T23:00:00+00:00

JUST GETTING STARTED

Silence filled the study after I’d spoken. I was considering what I’d said, but it made perfect sense to me.

“That’s ridiculous,” Axel said eventually. He still held on to my arms. “How do you figure that out in five minutes of talking to one person?”

“Old Mr. Murdock got money from Mr. Smith to join in on investments. Mr. Smith is looking to retire. He wants out.”

“So what makes you think old Mr. Murdock beat us to the punch?” Axel asked. “He’s just one person.”

“Because Mr. Smith now thinks I worked as Mr. Murdock’s fund manager. Selectively. I didn’t mean to lead him to that conclusion, but he kept pushing and he kept talking so I was letting it continue. He was adamant then that he wanted out. I’m guessing he wants me to locate his money and get it back to him.”

“So?”

“Is he that clueless?” Blake said in my ear. “Darling, you’re brilliant.”

I couldn’t respond to that. Instead, I focused on Axel’s dark eyes and when those were too stormy to look at steadily, I looked at the dark strand of hair now stuck behind his ear. “If Mr. Smith had invested in a normal way, he would have gone to...an accountant or whatever? Why would he need one fund manager he’d never seen before who claims to work with only Mr. Murdock?”

Axel released me slowly and then turned in the small space, looking at the bookshelf. His white pants swished a little as he moved. “That might account for some of those secret numbers. He was investing their money. That’s if he got to the rest of them.”

“But investing into what?” I asked. “And does that mean some people individually took money from Nightingale to invest with Mr. Murdock? Or did Mr. Murdock do that himself and this is their personal money on top of that?”

“If Mr. Smith has money that went to Mr. Murdock,” Blake said in my ear, although softer so it was harder to hear him, “and he knew it was secret, then he knew either the investments weren’t legal or he had money to clean.”

“We don’t know the whole story,” Axel said. “We need to step back and just try to get as much information as we can. We can’t make assumptions too soon.”

“I might have messed up already,” I said. “If he thinks I’m a fund manager of some sort...I don't even know what I’m talking about. I was just trying to get friendly and now he thinks I worked with Mr. Murdock directly. I told him I was the one investing their money. He’s going to be looking to me to help him get the money back.”

“We won’t be able to run off like this every time you feel flustered.” Axel straightened. “I’ll have to take the lead for now.”

“You can’t,” I said. “How is it going to look if all of a sudden you’re talking about investments and I’m not? Mr. Smith will wonder why we changed who was who. As it is now, I’m going to have to prove who I say I am.

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