“What happened to your last bookkeeper?”
“It’s confidential.” He furrowed his brow. “How is
your work ethic?”
“If I don’t understand something, I ask. I work
harder than the high-IQ people you might know. I try to like everyone, and I’m
a team player.”
“In other words it’d take murder for you to hate
someone.”
“Something like that,” she said.
He creased his brow. “I’ll meet your conditions if
you meet mine. Before quitting, give me a month’s warning. You’re bringing your
sportswear company back to life.”
“Fair enough,” she said, but his words, back to
life, made her think the opposite. Lester’s open casket was a mistake.
“We’ve got a deal.”
Ignoring the constriction in her chest, she handed
him the manila envelope. “This popped up like an evil Jack-in-a-box.”
Pushing a pile of papers off to a corner, he asked, “Photos?”
Taking the envelope with both hands, he dumped the contents onto his massive
desk.
“There’s just one photo, Lester’s, on a fake driver’s
license.” She rose from her chair and pointed to it.
Finn grabbed the license and brought it close to his
eyes. “Les’s photo carries the name of Edward Smithson. Les and I bought this
man’s company, Edward Smithson Incorporated.”
“His, rather Les’s, California license with the
hologram passes for genuine. Not that it makes you feel any better.” Seeing Finn
stoop over it, she empathized with his anxiety. Deadly Alliance is book 1 of the Donahue Cousins series.
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