Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evie by Marianne Stillings

Author:Marianne Stillings [Stillings, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Smitten, Police, Treasure Hunt
Published: 2005-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Under his capable fingers, the keyboard’s rapid taps and clicks sounded like music. On the screen, the tune came alive in the form of numbers and names, cities, countries, and very impressive totals.

And it was all his.

It hadn’t always been this way. He’d grown up poor, and worked like a demon to make his way in the world. He owed his success solely to himself, and if the world at large thought well of him, he deserved their adulation, had earned it, and intended to keep it.

While Tommy Heyworth had frittered away vast sums on food and drink and women and stupidity, he had kept his nose to the grindstone. He’d played along, been friendly, but not a friend.

For all his family’s wealth, Heyworth had been a cynic, and a suspicious one at that. It had taken forever to get the bastard to trust him, but in the end patience had won out. Patience, and greed, and luck. Not the kind of luck that was happenstance, but the kind of luck he had made happen.

As he closed one spreadsheet and opened another, he chuckled to himself. Trust was such an elemental thing between people. Once it was firmly established, a dishonest man could use that trust to pilfer and plunder and take his revenge in any number of ways. And Heyworth had never suspected; at least, not until just before his death. As long as he’d had all the money he needed, the bills were paid on time, and he could continue with that ludicrous writing career of his, Tommy Heyworth seemed not to care at all what happened to the rest of the Heyworth millions. And with no heirs to muddy the waters, nobody ever would.

He jabbed the keyboard, anger rising from deep within him at the injustice of it all. At how, out of the blue, the stupid son of a bitch had decided it was time to acknowledge his heir. His heir! Some brat gotten off some slut maid thirty years ago could step in and take it all away? Not bloody likely.

Heyworth wanted to change his will, wanted to acknowledge the little bitch, open the records and make an accounting of his holdings. Well, that was out of the question.

Tommy had to go, and go he had gone. Too bad the first attempt had been botched. This murder hunt business was tiresome and stressful, and the sooner he found the last clue and destroyed it, the better.

The phone rang and he answered it.

“She’s in town. I seen her with her boyfriend.”

“She doesn’t have a boyfriend,” he drawled. “It’s probably Galloway. Where are they now?”

“Her house. A little quality time in the sack, I bet.”

He sighed. “Knowing her, I sincerely doubt it, but feel free to imagine whatever you wish as long as it costs me nothing extra.”

“You got it. So, we still on for tonight?”

“Yes. Call me the minute they leave so I can establish my alibi. Then head for the boat. You know what to do.

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