Checkmate (18+) A Michael Jackson Book

Chapter 15: Suspects

Michael's POV:

After a quick shower and change of
clothes, I drove to the police station
as fast as I could. The news that the
girls found the number of the account
to where the stolen money was
transferred brought more excitement
and joy to my day, which by the way
was already much more tranquil
thanks to Natalie. I didn't know how
to explain it, but something that night
had been different. The Latina not only gave me a wonderful and satisfying night of sex, but she also made me relax, and consequently forget my problems. The divinely delicious dinner brought a sort of calmness to me. I confess that having that side of the Latina was somewhat different, however, good.

"Good Morning, Agent." One of the
police officers said as soon as I entered the precinct.

"Good Morning."

I crossed the precinct's reception
quickly, heading towards the elevators.

My head began to work faster, bringing with it anxiety. I pressed the button of the floor where my office was twice, in a failed attempt to go faster. As soon as the metal doors opened, I headed towards my office. Upon entering it, I came across Lauren, Normani and Ally.

"Finally!" Ally exclaimed as she got up
from her swivel chair.

"Sorry, I had to make a quick stop at
home to take a shower."

I received some mischievous looks,
which I took care of ignoring. I
approached my desk, where I had
a jumble of paperwork next to the
laptop that we got from the abandoned warehouse.

"Please give me the report."

Normani glanced at Lauren, who
nodded.

"Well, Michael... Since I was one of
the biggest responsible for the lack
of supervision of the system, I asked
the girls to stay with me last night.."
Lauren spoke with her eyes focused on me. "And together we assembled the computer again."

"It was a bit difficult and laborious, the machine had a good security system." Normani said with a visibly exhausted expression.

"But the important thing is that we
handled it. And we were able to get
the transaction history. We know the
numbers typed in the process, but only that." Ally completed while pushing the piece of paper with the numbers towards me.

"With this numbers we can know the
bank and the agency, right?" I asked as I stared at the numerical sequence.

"Yes. And we've already done a quick
search through the police system. The
account is in Switzerland." Lauren said handing me another paper.

"Dammit."

Swiss banks and their unique way
of protecting information is going to
make things more difficult. It wasn't for nothing that many criminals tended to have their money properly saved in the Swiss safe. There, the confidentiality of information of any type of transaction or data was followed vigorously, unless
requested by the account owner.

"We can ask for a warrant, we can get
the information, and they will have to
give it to us." Normani said.

"For that we'd have to talk to the
department of big cases there." I
muttered unsatisfied.

"I have acquaintances there." Ally
exclaimed.

"You could get in touch with them, send a team to the bank." Lauren let out calmly.

"No.." I backed away from the desk, as
my head seemed to work faster than
normal. "We are not telling anyone yet."

The three women looked at me
confused, trying to decipher what was
going through my head. I couldn't take any type of rash decision, everything had to be properly thought and calculated.