"One more thing,” I say. “I need your assurance that I'll be protected from the police."
Rebecca regards me for a moment, her expression unreadable. "Execute the plan as cleanly and as perfectly as you can. And if something goes wrong, as long as it can still be controlled, I'll take care of the authorities. But, if your mistake is too much to be controlled, then I’ll have to kill you myself so you can’t drag my name into the mess.”
I nod, “Fine. Understood.”
Rebecca reaches into her purse and pulls out a pen and a stack of checks. She quickly scribbles something on one of the checks and peels it off from the stack. She then hands the check over to me, and my eyes widen as I stare at the amount written on it - five million pesos!
Sure, twenty million is the total price of the crime I’
