Mission Mayhem (Echo Kingston Book 4) by Michael Cross

Author:Michael Cross [Cross, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Talk to me,” I answer the ring.

Justice looks back at me from the other side of the screen and pointedly holds up a bowl of macaroni and cheese. She takes a big bite and moans indecently like she’s in culinary ecstasy.

“Check it out,” she grins. “I made it myself. Here on this stove.”

I laugh. “Macaroni and cheese? Really?”

“What? I made it.”

“Try making something that doesn’t come out of a box, and we’ll talk,” I fire back with a laugh.

“My God, nothing makes you happy, does it?” she asks.

“I’m sure some things do,” I shrug. “And when I remember what they are, you’ll be the first to know.”

“You might want to start your search in a museum. Maybe they’ll have insight on fun things you’d have done back in the Stone Age.”

“Ha ha,” I roll my eyes.

She munches happily on her gourmet feast for a moment, and I’m forced to sit there and watch her eat that nuclear yellow garbage.

“When I get fancy, I chop up some hot dogs and toss them in,” she says.

“Yeah, real fancy,” I observe. “I think I’ve seen that exact dish on the menus of some of the finest restaurants in the country.”

“If it isn’t, it should be.”

I laugh and shake my head, patiently waiting for her to stop her grotesque display. She finally puts the bowl down and looks at me, dabbing the corners of her mouth daintily with a napkin.

“Okay, so I’m assuming you want an update?” she asks.

“That’s a pretty safe assumption.”

She laughs. “Well, I won’t overwhelm your frail old mind with the technical details, but I used my amazing and awe-inspiring technological powers to comb and sift through the Internet, searching the deepest and darkest recesses of cyberspace to find the information you requested.”

“And I appreciate your diligence,” I say. “As well as your expertise.”

“Did I mention how deep and dark those recesses were?” she presses. “And how much virtual garbage I had to sift through to fulfill your request?”

“I’m fresh out of gold stars,” I reply. “But I will definitely buy you a cookie next time I’m in town.”

“I suppose that will be an acceptable form of payment.”

“Deal,” I say. “Now spill.”

“Well, your rogue DEA Chief is a slippery customer,” she says. “Knows all of the ins and outs of hiding money and whatnot.”

“I’m not surprised in the least.”

“But he’s not good enough to hide from me,” she beams.

“Of course he’s not,” I grin. “Nobody is.”

“Yeah, I know. Anyway, McGregor has half a dozen offshore accounts set up,” she says. “Hidden through a bunch of shell corporations, of course. He’s careful about trying to keep his name off the official paperwork.”

“So how is he doing it?”

“This scumbag is using his wife—using her maiden name, of course,” she tells me. “And he’s using his children’s names on the incorporation papers on some of these shell companies.”

“Clever,” I note. “Not terribly original though.”

“Shady. But not necessarily illegal.”

“There is that,” I admit. “Now what?”

“Now, you let me finish,” she says.

I laugh. “Okay, apologies,” I say.

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