Las Vegas Syndicate Box Set: The Complete Series Box Set (1-3): King of Sin, Wages of Sin, Surrender to Sin by Michelle St. James

Author:Michelle St. James [James, Michelle St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackthorn Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Abby reached the bottom of the spreadsheet tracking the month’s revenue and leaned back in her chair. She’d been so preoccupied tracking the flow of DeLuca’s money at the Tangier that it had been a challenge to stay on top of her regular work, something that was critical if she wanted to avoid additional scrutiny from Jason — not to mention Bruce Frazier.

She’d taken to coming in even earlier and staying late, determined to act the part of responsible employee while Max worked behind the scenes with the Syndicate to arrange for the theft of DeLuca’s money.

It was easy enough to pass off; she’d been out of town for over a month. Catching up was inevitable.

Still, she couldn’t help being nervous. As far as she knew, Jason had no idea what she’d been up to — and no idea what was coming.

In less than twelve hours, Max, Nico, and a handful of other men Abby hadn’t met would intercept the money. By tomorrow at this time, DeLuca would know his money was missing.

Max had assured her that Fredo DeLuca wouldn’t know who’d taken it. He’d even gone so far as to suggest DeLuca wouldn’t care. According to Max, Jason was responsible for the money until it was back in DeLuca’s hands. The theft would be seen as Jason’s responsibility. That’s how it worked.

It didn’t matter if it was fair.

Jason’s money had been a concern, one she’d brought up to Max when they’d first discussed stealing the money; wouldn’t Jason just pay off Deluca’s loss and continue business a usual?

According to Max, it would’t work that way. No one was going to kiss off five million dollars with a hug and a handshake. Fredo DeLuca might take Jason’s payoff once, but the damage would be done. He wouldn’t trust Jason to move his money anymore, wouldn’t trust Jason to be his partner. He would suspect the information breach had come from somewhere inside the casino.

And that was the point.

Distrust was all the Syndicate needed to make a move on Jason’s half of the Vegas territory, to make the point to Fredo DeLuca that any loss of revenue they might experience from partnering with the Syndicate and playing by their rules would be offset by their confidence in the Syndicate’s ability to get the job done without the kind of mistakes that resulted in a five million dollar loss.

She tabbed through the casino’s files and opened the inventory manifest for that month’s returns. It only took a minute to locate the boxes destined for return to Desert Restaurant Supply — the boxes loaded with DeLuca’s cash.

According to the system, twenty boxes were earmarked for return, all listed as “consignment returns”.

It was a smart move on Jason’s part. If the boxes had been marked as regular returns, there would’ve been a discrepancy in the books. Why would the Tangier return merchandise to a company that had never sold anything to the casino? To a company that would never compensate them for the loss?

But a consignment meant there was no record of incoming merchandise to balance against a return.

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