ng. The faint light was just enough to navigate the dark room. She moved around th
with painstaking care to avoid making a sound. They were filled with mu
not trusting banks. Her eyes scanned the room and settled on the ornate rug beneath the desk.
finding the edge of the he
with the hardwood floor. A digital keyprgotten matriarch. She carefully typed in Susan's birthday. The
ld revolved around himself and his achievements. She entered the date his compan
in the silent room. The heavy st
tacks of cash. There was a few gold bars, and a black
with neat columns of handwritten numbers and codes. Account numbers. Routing information for offsho
a key. She need
ent ghost moving back through the house. Ford hadn't moved an i
he pushed the revulsion down. She lifted his thumb and pressed it firml
n lit up.
er supreme arrogance or sheer laziness, had linked his accounts to Ford's t
rrison's own leather chair, the ledger open before her. One by one, she began
econdary verification, a code sent to the account holder's
email app open, logged in. The code
screen refreshed, a
t appeared sto
57,4
f it untraceable. All
. She had already set up a series of anonymous, encrypted cryptocurrency wallets for t
e full amount.
Confirm T
ng... It moved with agonizing slowness. Each pe
shifted. He let out a loud, wet sigh in his
, her fingers closing around the cold steel handle of her knife. If he woke up, i
ide, his snoring resuming i
't realized she was holding. He
ress bar
peared on the screen
llion dollars had just vanished
safe, closed the heavy door, and carefully rolled the Persian rug back into place, smoothing out any wrinkles. She u
udy, closing the door wit
, snoring heap. She looked down at him, at the man who had wa
e beginning. The reve
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