Page 121 of Morally Corrupt

We thank the doctor, and after he leaves, Bianca crosses her arms and raises an eyebrow at me.

"And you were saying aboutmyinjuries…?"

"Why are you so satisfied with yourself?" I grumble.

"Because maybe at some point, you'll realize we're not so different, you and I." I stare at her for a moment, trying to gather my thoughts for a reply, when her phone goes off again. She puts one finger up before accepting the call and putting it on speaker.

"There you are, little goddess. Marcel told me you encountered some problems."

"Yeah, we're about to leave the hospital," Bianca replies.

"Good. Come by, will you? I think we've found something with that list of yours."

"Fine. We'll be there soon." She hangs up the phone, and I voice something that's been bothering me for quite some time.

"Why does he always call you a little goddess?"

"It's from my code name." She leans in to whisper in my ear, "Artemis. One day, he just called me that, and I went with it." She shrugs as if it doesn't seem entirely too intimate.

"I don't like it," I tell her, and she frowns at me.

"Why?"

"I just don't," I complain and cross my arms.

"Fine, I'll tell him not to call me that anymore." She takes her purse to go.

"Just like that? No objections?"

She doesn't seem to understand what I'm trying to say as she replies nonchalantly, "Why would I object? You don't like it, so I'll tell him to stop."

"Never mind." I stand to go.

We get to Vlad's place, and we find him and Marcel in front of the computer, focused on whatever is on the screen.

"There you are," Vlad says without looking up. "Come see this." We both go around the desk, and Vlad points towards the document he's pulled up.

"So, there are a total of eighteen names on the list. We've managed to track all of them." He shows us pictures of the two sheets of paper containing the names, with six of those names being crossed out.

"What did you find out?" I ask, hoping they found something.

"All of those twelve names we can make out were important men in the public functions or heads of businesses twenty years ago."

"Were?"

"Some are dead now, and most have retired already. I've also talked to my IT guy to try to make out the crossed-out names."

"This isn't much," Bianca notes, but Vlad quickly puts up his hand to stop her.

"Not finished, please. The working theory is that these people were involved with Jimenez at one point. Marcel and I started looking at each person's finances. If they invested with Jimenez, there must be some type of evidence, right? We didn't manage to go through all,obviously,but the three people we did manage to investigate gave us something."

"Something?" I ask, and Vlad pulls up financial statements next.

"We noticed the three have something in common. Around twenty years ago, they started making regular yearly payments to an offshore account." He points to the amount, and it's staggering. Each person would wire two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each.

"Shit! Blackmail?" Both Vlad and Marcel nod.

"And the offshore account?"

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