14 RONLily had slept with that huge wad of money in a sock under her pillow, because she could not put it in the bank. She was not overly concerned about that, since there were only two real dangers: a house fire and a police raid, neither of which, she suspected, was immanent.
In fact, she intended to open a safety deposit box at her bank, which she had heard somewhere was quite reasonable. She took no pleasure from the cash itself, she hadn’t even counted it, it was the stability that it gave her that mattered and she was happy that she had not killed Aeng for his money. She hadn’t killed any of them for their money, just for their attitude towards their fellow human beings.
As she lay there thinking, the alarm went off, so she got up.
The same routine, always the same routine with Li
