MI 7

Chapter 5

Then we got to the place we were call the police on grace for and pretended to be her lawyer and his daughter

Here my outfit

Then he grabbed a book and hand these reading glasses

You wear glasses? I asked

Abby, sometimes when I read he said

When do you read? I asked

Watch your smart ass mouth

Then he said stuff in Italian

Thank you officers

Sorry, again I have to bring my child he said

I looked at him

Please

You can wait outside, thank you

Then they left

Hi theif I said and was going to attack her but dad grabbed me

Nice try, darling he said to me

You two

You guys did this

I wanted to see you go to jail I said

What? Grace said

Abigail he said

I called the police

I didn't tell them about your colorful past

I want to tell them everything I said

That's on you

You put-pocketed that key on another passenger

Before you were arrested

You exchanged details and arranged to meet later on

Right now, someone out there hasn't slightest clue they're holding on to that key for you

An unwitting courier

The perfect accomplice

I'm guessing a man, middle aged?

A man waiting his whole life to be noticed by a woman like you

An orphan, like Enzo he said

Highly intelligent, inherently resourceful

Growing up in poverty left you longing for the finer things

Other people's things

I faked and said theif

Dad elbowed me

Someone saw your potential

And helped you hone your skills

Skills that gave you the life you thought you wanted

Tailored clothes, fine dinging, luxury hotels

Skills that kept you one step ahead of the law, until now

You can't blame a girl for trying to make a dishonest living

Then get a job I said

You had no idea what you were stealing

Otherwise, you never would have stolen it

Tell you what

You two get me out of here, and I'll take you straight to the key

I have a better idea

Take her to prison? I said

No

You're gonna tell me and my daughter everything

Listen I'll think about getting you out of here

Just leave her here I said

Now start with who hired you

And don't lie to me or her because I'll know

He knows when someone is lying I said

I have no idea who hired me

Contact with the client was almost entirely electronic

Email?

Text

Encrypted?

Naturally

Almost?

Pardon?

You said contact with the client was almost entirely electronic

There was a dead drop in a café in Luxembourg

An envelope

What was in the envelope?

A ticket to abu dhabi

And

A picture of you and her and your kids

My instructions were to follow you at the airport

You'd be tailing a mark

Said mark would have a key

And four million in cryptocurrency

That drive was useless by the way, it was empty

The only hope I have of getting paid is to deliver your half of the key

And you were instructed to deliver it to?

Venice

Party of ducale palace tomorrow, midnight

You expecting someone?

Your friends a from the airport

Saw them in the hallway a few minutes ago

You call them I said and about to attack her but dad grabbed me

You could have said something sooner

Well, they were chasing you two, not me

Then we left