Chapter 15:
"How much did you hear," he says.
I could lie. I'm good at lying. Two years in that house made me fluent.
"Fifty mil," I say.
He doesn't move.
"Wire the fifty mil," I say. "Not the first account, the one on the paper. Tonight after close. Don't put my name on it." I set my glass down on the bar. "That's how much I heard."
Kael's jaw works once.
Then he says, "You went through the back hall."
"Yeah."
"To listen at a door."
"Yeah."
"That's not —" He stops himself. Starts again. "That's not how this works. In this club, in this town, when a man takes a call in the back, that's his call."
"You wired fifty million dollars."
"Elara—"
"You wired fifty million dollars while I sat on a stool and thought you were a guy who owned a bar." My voice is going up and I can't stop
