“‘You always take girls to dives like that?’‘Only the ones I think can handle it. You passed the test.’She gave a wry smile and turned back to her task. Dozens of documents sat in front of them, business records, letters, copies of emails.She examined the last few in the pile. She leaned back. ‘It looks like there’s close to a million dollars in quote “miscellaneous assets” that my boss has. But there’s no clue where they could be. It’s so unfair! To know there’s money out there, enough for the ...ransom, but not know where it is. How the hell’m I going to get Joseph his goddamn money?’Daniel examined his half of the documents and he admitted that he had found nothing helpful either.Gabriela’s coffee sat untouched before her. Daniel was drinking tea. Two bags sat in the cup, dyeing the water ruddy brown. Not many people drank tea, she reflected. Her mother did. For the past six years, though, the woman mostly just stared at the cup of cooling English Breakfast on the table in the assisted-living home.Forget that.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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