Kiss Me Goodbye

Chapter 3

Reluctantly Christiana listened as Dean explained the plan that was to be set in motion. She had the greatest part of the acting she realized and everyone was at her mercy, she had the upper hand or the operation will fail and the bad guys will be cautious.

"Since you broke your engagement this makes things a lot harder for us. Because we need you to spy on the Geraldos and we need you to get them to trust you more than they trusted your parents. We need you to be the bait so we could get our hands on some d***ing evidence to put them behind bars for a very long time. You can use you parent's business as bait and tell them you decided to carry on the flame in their stead." Dean explained.

"No. Impossible." Christiana reasoned thoughtfully. "I told Matt this afternoon that I was leaving to New York in the morning and he understood that I had no idea about their business."

"Then here's plan B or maybe, it's plan C." Dean interrupted, straightening from the desk, standing near Christiana and laying his hand on her right shoulder. "You will go to Matt tonight and you will look scared and angry. You'll tell him..."

An hour later, Christina stood at the Geraldo's door, her eyes all puffed up filled with tears that were streaming down her cheeks. When Matt opened the door, Christiana flung herself at him and started to sob: "Oh Matt..." She said breathlessly, lifting her face from his shoulder to look into his eyes to see his reaction which was shock accompanied with a little bit of concern. "I am so scared ... and I didn't know who else to turn to..."

"What is it darling?" He asked dragging her inside and closing the door behind them. He led her to the living room and invited her to sit down the big black leather sofa. She flung herself in it and he followed suit sticking like glue to her side.

"After you left this afternoon," She began, trying her best to hide her smile because the plan was working marvelously, "I took a shower and went to bed then ten minutes later two detectives show up at the door. They asked to see the papers concerning my parents business and..."

"Did you give them the papers?" Matt asked worriedly holding her by the shoulders and almost shaking her senseless then he relaxed his grip realizing that he was startling her more and even exposing his fears to her and thus making her suspicious of what was going on.

"Of course not! Do you think I'm crazy?" Christiana burst out acting offended. Matt released his breath in a rush relaxing his strained nerves Thank God, he thought, that is the first sensible thing she's ever done in her life, that was luck.

"I told them to show me the papers... the search warrant and they didn't have it so I told them they should get it first before coming to collect anything from my house and that is when they told me something that scared the hell out of me!" She said a tear spilling from her eye lashes and landing on her cheek. Matt wiped it with his thumb feigning kindness. What he really wanted was to know was what the police suspected and what they had told her.

"What is it dear? What did they tell you?" Matt asked seeing her hesitating to reveal what the police had told her. Oh but Christiana was just playing her part with flying colors. Reading his eyes the way she always did was a great advantage that she exploited to the extreme.

"They said that sooner or later they will get a warrant and then I was going to be locked behind bars. When I asked them about what I had done they said that they knew I was involved in my parent's business. They said my parents were suspects in the murder of two individuals that took place on Manchester Street four blocks away from our house.

"The two victims were their business partners and some employees that the police questioned said that my father had had a fight with them in his office two days before they wound up dead. They say that since I am their daughter I must have been involved in the murder and I was a suspect, too. Suspect number one as they put it. They also said that we, my parents and me, are involved in drugs and money laundering and other crimes and that they will soon enough find evidence to prove my involvement in these activities too. I told them that my parents had died in a car accident and that I don't even know what they did for a living. That they were good and honest people and that they are wrong my parents couldn't, wouldn't have been involved in something so hideous. They just wouldn't."