You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 21 of 32
Chapter 21: Nine Days Again
By two in the morning the phones wouldn't stop.
Zoe had every line lit, and Bridger was answering the overflow with a headset crooked over his buzzed head.
I stood behind her chair and watched the locks spread across the map.
A hundred and seventeen turned to a hundred and forty.
Nineteen of the stores on that screen were already Kostas's.
Their money had been halfway through the move when the hold landed, and now it sat in Hallett's pipe, behind a padlock, with my initials on it.
"This is Kostas Ledger," Zoe said into the nearest phone, and her voice was steady as a plumb line. "Yes, ma'am. I know. Your money is safe."
She hung up, and the next light was already blinking.
"Kostas," she said. "Yes, sir."
A long silence.
"I know what payroll is," she said. "I know what it is on a Saturday."
I watched her listen.
I watched her shut her eyes while a man cried into her ear, and she held the receiver with both hands.
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