CHAPTER 61 - Reno, Nevada Friday, August 2, 2024

CHAPTER 61

Reno, Nevada Friday, August 2, 2024

AFEW MINUTES LATER MARVIN MANN EMERGED FROM THE VAULT CARRYING a thin safe deposit box. He walked into the small room where Eric waited and placed it on the table. He lifted the top of the metal box to reveal a stack of papers inside. Marvin removed the documents and slipped on his reading glasses.

“Yep,” he said. “These are them.”

Eric took the first stack of pages and read through them. They looked to be financial statements. He noted a couple of pages indicating the creation of a limited liability corporation, another page was a spreadsheet of financials, and the third was a list of deposits made into a numbered account. Eric picked through each page until he reached the end of the stack. He then removed the final bundle of documents from the safe deposit box and fingered through the remaining pages. Each page was the same gibberish—account numbers, financial spreadsheets, and names of corporations.

He reached the end of the stack and turned to the final page. There, stuck to the last page, was a yellow sticky note that carried his father’s familiar handwriting.

“Holy shit.”

Marvin peered through his cheaters to read the sticky note. “I’ll be damned.”

Eric ran from the private room and raced up the steps, bolting across the reception area and through the front doors. As he sprinted for his car, he fumbled for his phone to call Sloan.