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.I’m afraid they’re watching and listening.It’s a risk I won’t take until I get to the bottom of this myself.”“Ryan must have been close to all of them to have left them five million dollars each.”“I don’t know how close he was to them, but I would assume, given that sum of money, that they meant something to him.Louis and I lost touch during the last few years before he died.”“What happened?”“Nothing happened.We were just two good friends who saw less and less of each other as time went on.We were both busy.It happens.I was into my philanthropy work.Louis obviously was scheming to kill George Redman and his family.But he knew I’d always have his back, just as I knew, back then, that he’d have mine.He made me executor of his will without my knowledge.He transferred all of his shares of Manhattan Enterprises over to me without my knowledge of it.Probably because Louis had no family.Probably because while he was alive, I never judged him while others did.That’s why we’re at Manhattan Enterprises now.When those shares were turned over to me, he essentially made me the chief shareholder of his company.”“You’re the CEO?”“Good heavens, no.I sit on the board and make decisions along with the rest of them, but being CEO is something I’m hardly qualified to handle.I just attend the meetings when they’re held, use my business sense to the best of my ability to keep the ship on course, and keep an office here because it’s located at a good address and it’s convenient.”“Do you know the Redmans?”“I’ve met George and Elizabeth at a few events, and I met Celina before that awful man no one can seem to find drowned her, but I never met Leana, though I hear she’s making a go of it now.”“Where did you hear that?”“Do you read the papers, Mr.Spellman? Leana Redman is everywhere these days.She has that hotel on Park of hers that’s about to open.She thinks she’s going to attract the Park Avenue set, which she won’t because she’s new.But good on her for trying, I guess.”“What do you mean by ‘new’?”“New money.”“You say it as if her money is different from yours.”“It’s absolutely different.”“How is it different?”“She isn’t one of us.She isn’t in the book.Neither is her father.Nor was Louis, for that matter, though God knows he tried to get himself in the book and to be one of us.I was one of the few who accepted him because of our history together.Sometimes, but rarely, when worlds collide in favorable ways, that can happen.”“If that’s the case, how was Louis friends with the baron and baroness? And Piggy French? They’re in the book.I checked.Why were they friends with Louis?”“No idea.Business deals, likely.”“But he left each of them five million dollars.Don’t you find that odd if they weren’t close friends?”“Who said they weren’t close friends? Maybe they were.I didn’t know every facet of Louis’ life, Mr.Spellman.As I said, they could have entered into business together.Who knows? There are things about Louis I’ll never understand, particularly why he devised a plot to murder the Redmans when he should have just gone to the police with what he knew.Or with what he thought he knew.It wasn’t George who killed his wife, but George’s wife, Elizabeth.She’s now scrubbing toilets in prison.He was wrong about that.Terribly wrong.What he did was pure madness.How can it be explained any other way?”Cullen held out his hands in a gesture of exasperation.“It’s sad, isn’t it? Do any of us really know our friends? Our wives, husbands, children? I thought I knew Louis, but apparently I didn’t know him at all.Because the man I knew never would have resorted to the crimes he committed.He had to have been mad to commit them.He must have gone off the rails to do what he did.It’s awful what he did.I don’t understand why he did it.”“In those moments when you’ve made an effort to draw connections between the deaths of his beneficiaries and what’s happening now, where does your mind lead you?”“It leads me nowhere.I don’t know what’s going on.I don’t understand any of this.It befuddles me; and frankly, it scares me.I’m not one to go down without a fight, which is why I’ve hired security, but I’m no fool, Mr.Spellman.Whoever is behind this will win in the end.They’ll get to me, just like they got to everyone else.I’ll die.And do you know what’s worse than that?”“How can anything be worse than that?”James Cullen furrowed his brow [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.I’m afraid they’re watching and listening.It’s a risk I won’t take until I get to the bottom of this myself.”“Ryan must have been close to all of them to have left them five million dollars each.”“I don’t know how close he was to them, but I would assume, given that sum of money, that they meant something to him.Louis and I lost touch during the last few years before he died.”“What happened?”“Nothing happened.We were just two good friends who saw less and less of each other as time went on.We were both busy.It happens.I was into my philanthropy work.Louis obviously was scheming to kill George Redman and his family.But he knew I’d always have his back, just as I knew, back then, that he’d have mine.He made me executor of his will without my knowledge.He transferred all of his shares of Manhattan Enterprises over to me without my knowledge of it.Probably because Louis had no family.Probably because while he was alive, I never judged him while others did.That’s why we’re at Manhattan Enterprises now.When those shares were turned over to me, he essentially made me the chief shareholder of his company.”“You’re the CEO?”“Good heavens, no.I sit on the board and make decisions along with the rest of them, but being CEO is something I’m hardly qualified to handle.I just attend the meetings when they’re held, use my business sense to the best of my ability to keep the ship on course, and keep an office here because it’s located at a good address and it’s convenient.”“Do you know the Redmans?”“I’ve met George and Elizabeth at a few events, and I met Celina before that awful man no one can seem to find drowned her, but I never met Leana, though I hear she’s making a go of it now.”“Where did you hear that?”“Do you read the papers, Mr.Spellman? Leana Redman is everywhere these days.She has that hotel on Park of hers that’s about to open.She thinks she’s going to attract the Park Avenue set, which she won’t because she’s new.But good on her for trying, I guess.”“What do you mean by ‘new’?”“New money.”“You say it as if her money is different from yours.”“It’s absolutely different.”“How is it different?”“She isn’t one of us.She isn’t in the book.Neither is her father.Nor was Louis, for that matter, though God knows he tried to get himself in the book and to be one of us.I was one of the few who accepted him because of our history together.Sometimes, but rarely, when worlds collide in favorable ways, that can happen.”“If that’s the case, how was Louis friends with the baron and baroness? And Piggy French? They’re in the book.I checked.Why were they friends with Louis?”“No idea.Business deals, likely.”“But he left each of them five million dollars.Don’t you find that odd if they weren’t close friends?”“Who said they weren’t close friends? Maybe they were.I didn’t know every facet of Louis’ life, Mr.Spellman.As I said, they could have entered into business together.Who knows? There are things about Louis I’ll never understand, particularly why he devised a plot to murder the Redmans when he should have just gone to the police with what he knew.Or with what he thought he knew.It wasn’t George who killed his wife, but George’s wife, Elizabeth.She’s now scrubbing toilets in prison.He was wrong about that.Terribly wrong.What he did was pure madness.How can it be explained any other way?”Cullen held out his hands in a gesture of exasperation.“It’s sad, isn’t it? Do any of us really know our friends? Our wives, husbands, children? I thought I knew Louis, but apparently I didn’t know him at all.Because the man I knew never would have resorted to the crimes he committed.He had to have been mad to commit them.He must have gone off the rails to do what he did.It’s awful what he did.I don’t understand why he did it.”“In those moments when you’ve made an effort to draw connections between the deaths of his beneficiaries and what’s happening now, where does your mind lead you?”“It leads me nowhere.I don’t know what’s going on.I don’t understand any of this.It befuddles me; and frankly, it scares me.I’m not one to go down without a fight, which is why I’ve hired security, but I’m no fool, Mr.Spellman.Whoever is behind this will win in the end.They’ll get to me, just like they got to everyone else.I’ll die.And do you know what’s worse than that?”“How can anything be worse than that?”James Cullen furrowed his brow [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]