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Luke.
We zoomed off to the headquarters when we dropped Tia off at the mansion. My wife was worried, and I knew I needed to explain the matter to her, but I did not have the luxury of time. I hated the day. First, it was Stacy’s attempted suicide and now this. Why would people pull back their military support like this?
“We know Luis is behind this,” Caleb stated with a matter-of-fact tone. I was the one behind the wheels. “How was he able to pull it off?” Caleb asked.
“Mike is still trying to figure it out,” I said, taking a sharp turn to the left. “Do you think father might be right about Luis and Regan being the same people?” Caleb asked me, and I sighed. “I thought as much too. This guy claims our father stole something from him because he had money. A wife and child fit the bill perfectly.” I said.
“I disagree, Luke. He pimped my mother for years and forced her into a marriage so she won’t run away. He must have claimed her by force. Then he abandoned her in Cleeve and sent his daughter to Dome. He did not care for them. Then he finds out our father is single and vulnerable, and he decides to pimp his wife to our father so she could kill him and you and hand everything to him. That same money he claims she left him for is the very money he wanted to get his hands on. My mother did what was best for her and Monica by staying put and not looking back. As much as I hate to say this, our father was an escape for my mother. She was safe. She was finally in a place where she could have all she wanted, she would never be pimped to anyone, and Regan could not get her. He cannot count that as stealing.” Caleb argued, and I understood his point, but it is what it is. In Regan’s twisted mind, our father took his wife, and he did not get anything for it.
“That bastard bled my mother dry and turned her into a gold digger. She wouldn’t have struck those deals with Timothy if she didn’t need the money so much,” he said, and I pulled up in front of the headquarters. Something clicked in my head then and there. If Luis is Regan, then the pressure was deliberate. He knew she would agree to help Timothy get the contracts and approve payments just so she could get the money to get him off her back. It was a twisted guess, but it was possible. The guy could do anything. Mike was waiting for us, and í handed the car to a kappa so he would park it for me.
“How are the investigations going?” I asked Mike.
“We just started.” He said and sighed, then continued without me urging him to do so.
“Apparently, someone sent an email from your office reducing the Military support allowances.” He confessed and I was shocked.
“How? When?” I asked Mike, and he sighed.
“In the early hours of this morning. It was as if they knew you would not be in the office. They scramble all the camera footage, Luke. We have nothing.” He said, and I wondered why anyone
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would do that. How far was Luis’s reach? Had he closed us in without us knowing? I noticed that Mike wasn’t done talking yet, so Iurged him to continue speaking. He cleared his throat. “Gail called from Tia’s office this morning asking for military assistance,” he said, and I stopped walking and looked at him. “What did she need it for?” I asked, and she sighed. “Something happened in Diamond corp, and she did not want anyone leaving until she could talk to Tia,” he said, and I was about to take out my phone when it started ringing. It was Tia. I answered immediately. “Tia,” I said, and she sighed. “Luke, you need to be calm, please. What I need to tell you is serious,” she said, and there was no way those words could make anyone calm, but I tried to be quiet and relaxed. “They have wiped us clean,” she said, and I wondered what she meant. “Who and what?” I asked calmly, even though I wasn’t calm at all. “They cleaned out our liquid assets this morning Luke. We are
days. Most of that money was put away
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“But we have to pretend that they got us, Luke. So they do not figure it out. We spread the funds throughout fifty accounts, not to
“Great, but I do not want you to go there. Let Kirk handle it. I do not want you stressed out, Tia. Our baby is important.”
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and the words had slipped out before I knew it. I was scared she would take offence, but when she chuckled, I relaxed. “You are not the boss of me, Alpha,” she teased, “We are equal partners in
me, and I sighed, knowing that was a possibility and I could not go there myself because the military issue was pending. “Very well then, please be safe and go home from there. Make
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I-love-yous and hung up. “What happened,” Caleb asked me the moment I Hung up. “The money is gone. They cleaned our accounts this morning while we were in the hospital.” I said, and Caleb frowned at me.
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sent the email with my computer, causing the people to desert the military. Tia would have also been in the office to make quick decisions to fish out the culprits. Somehow the missing money was tied to the deserters. There was no way it was a coincidence that this happened simultaneously by
Gamma and best friend, “”what areas deserted our army?” I asked, and he frowned. “Dome, Cleeve, Cape, Woodland, Forest
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