Lights Out!--A heist thriller involving the Mafia by Donald Bain

Author:Donald Bain [Donald Bain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2014-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

‘I would like to meet your friend, the banker,’ Smythe told Gina after he’d given her the forty thousand dollars and they’d made love in his suite.

He’d fixated on the ‘private banker’ Gina had mentioned during their last time together. Actually, he’d fixated on a number of things during the flight to Buenos Aires. The strain of the past few weeks had taken its toll.

He knew that in launching his adventure with Gina and Martone he was acting like an impetuous schoolboy, living for the moment and never stopping to consider the ramifications. As much as he tried to rationalize his actions – getting revenge on his former employer, bailing out of a loveless marriage, seeking pleasure that he’d decided he was due – the reality was that he’d put into motion a criminal act, which made him no better than Martone and others like him.

His betrayal of Cynthia weighed heavily, and he worried while flying home from his latest tryst with Gina that he might be carrying a venereal disease to his wife during their infrequent moments together in one bed to ‘cuddle’, her euphemism for making love. He’d never used protection with Cynthia because she was infertile, and it didn’t matter anyway because she was the only woman he’d been with since their marriage – until Gina. He hadn’t had any condoms with him the first few times they’d made love, not that they would have been put to use. Their passion was so powerful and sudden that there wouldn’t have been time to slip one on. He debated using a condom later in their affair but decided it would no longer matter. Gina provided her own birth control, and the idea that this perfect female creature would transmit a venereal disease was absurd.

What would the fallout be once the blackout was a reality and he’d left Cynthia and Toronto for good? The good name of Walter Wiggins would be a laughing stock when word got out about what he’d done.

Carlton Smythe, adulterer, liar, schemer, criminal, fraud, weasel: those names and worse would be forever attached to Cynthia and by extension to her prestigious family. And there was his own family who would also suffer disgrace, although his father had long been dead. His mother resided in a dementia facility and didn’t know what day it was, let alone be able to react to the news that her only son was a regular John Dillinger.

But while these unpleasant thoughts swirled through his head, he kept coming back to this so-called private banker. He had two concerns about him, the least of which was whether he could be trusted with the money that Smythe, via Gina, would place in his hands. Smythe’s biggest fear was that Gina and this banker were in some way romantically and sexually involved. That would be a crushing blow.

‘Why do you want to meet Guillermo?’ Gina asked as they sat naked in bed following their lovemaking.

‘Oh, no special reason,’ Smythe said. ‘But if he’s going to be handling our money, I think I should at least get to know him.

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