Fool Me Once by Steve Hockensmith & Lisa Falco

Author:Steve Hockensmith & Lisa Falco [Hockensmith, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: white magic five and dime, tarot mystery, white magic five & dime, Tarot Cards, tarot
Publisher: Midnight Ink is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.
Published: 2015-06-24T22:00:00+00:00

And it worked. The couple looked at each other with wide, cowed eyes, exchanged a few words, then nodded.

The older man grinned and turned to the blond receptionist.

“Sophia,” he said.

She hopped up and hurried off around a corner. When she returned a few seconds later, she was carrying a silver tray with glasses and a bottle of champagne balanced on it. She delivered it to the work cube where the couple was now signing form after form after form.

“Congratulations, Paul and Shari Rodes!” the man boomed. “And welcome to Oak Creek Golf Resorts and Estates!”

He popped open the champagne, and the other salespeople applauded.

As the man poured glasses of bubbly for a beaming Paul and Shari, a different couple—this one looking confused and embarrassed—was quickly hustled toward a back door by a stone-faced salesman. No one else would look at them. The salesman didn’t give them a kick in the pants as he practically shoved them out the door, but that was only because they weren’t worth the trouble.

They were nobodies. Losers.

Because they were smart. They’d said no, so they had to go.

It takes a special kind of person to thrive in a business like this—coddling and manipulating the gullible while coldly discarding the uncooperative and unprofitable. “Assholes,” I think they’re called. Or “sociopaths,” if you want to be more scientific about it.

In my case, “Mom” also fit the bill.

The older man moved on to another cube. He leaned in over the couple there and put his hand on the husband’s back in a way that was supposed to seem friendly but was really assertive and domineering. Everything was a power play with this guy. A battle for dominance he had to win.

I didn’t have to wonder how someone like Bill Riggs would get along with him. I knew.

“Alanis—you need to tell me. Now,” Victor said. “Why are we really here?”

“To see him.”

I nodded at the man. I knew another name for him.

Harry Kyle. Bill’s boss.

And perhaps suspect #2.

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