Continued from Chapter 39.
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Mary had shouted out that she was rich. That had gotten the kidnapper's attention immediately, and his fist had halted in the air. Next, they had spent a half hour going over her financial situation where he was very much like her 'fu*king tax attorney'.
They were still in the process of coming to an agreement with clear terms and an action plan, but two things were crystal clear.
The first was that she would disappear. As far as anyone, including Theo, was aware, she was dead.
The second was that she would give him half a million dollars. She would wire the amount to his account from a computer they would go to together, right after he untied her.
It wouldn’t have been an issue to act dead, she didn’t have much of life anyway. It was simple enough, cons
