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" ‘We’ You’re cute You knoell as I do that there’s shit going on over on that side of the world that the FBI will never catch wind of"

"Is his wife involved?"

"I don’t see herlike that She has ties to Iranian royalty, after all I hope she kept soets seized" An entire ehts of the round as someone more i of seizing assets" I pause, waiting for Warner to fill in the blanks He knoho I’ about Luke

"Everything’s been released The kid hired good lawyers and, since we have no proof beyond hearsay that 24 was involved, we couldn’t hold his assets anymore"

I take a deep breath I’m not sure if I’m happy about this or not That means Luke has a ton of h dirty dealings And he fought the Feds to get it What does thatelseinteresting?"

There’s a long silence "Yes" Warner hesitates "Betty-Jo Billings received a check made out to cash by an anonymous donor last week She called the police, because it was a lot of ht it was fraudulent"

"How much money?"

"Like, if you were to sell a million-dollar condo and your Porsche 911that much money"

My heart skips a few beats "He"

"He’s renting a s until night Goes ho Spends a lot of ti into sooes to sit on a bench Alone"

"You’re still doing surveillance on hi else "Did Sinclair tell you to do that?"

"Nope It’s unofficial"

I s "Then why?"

Warner sighs "Because I know you too well"

I smile "Thanks, Warner"

I stare at the picture of Aref onthe article several ti foronly socialite-type posts and pictures about the beautiful wife of the heir to Haut tells me that El Luke’s car had to be her way of outing me The hows and whys have re at her face, reeless beauty, her cool disposition, her shrewd gaze She knew just what to say, what to do