Beauty and the Beast Within Ch. 03

The poison was something that could be digested and that wouldn't show up in his blood. If anything, he'd appear as if he had suffered a heart attack. If anything, she'd be doing him a favor by taking possession of his money. If anything, he'd be one less powerfully, influential man to abuse his power, abuse women, and abuse children.

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Wearing gloves, stealthily, quietly, and without making a sound, she entered through his unlocked bathroom window. She heard him before she saw him. He was on the floor holding his stomach and gasping for air. Perhaps if she had dialed 911 before leaving with his briefcase full of money, she may have saved him. Only, it was better this way with no one finding his dead body for a day or two or longer now that the cook and the housekeeper were on leave for a couple of weeks.

"Help," he said gasping for air.

She stepped over him to take ownership of his briefcase. Lugging the small suitcase to her, it must have weighed twenty-five pounds. When she opened it, stacked neatly inside were rows and rows of hundred dollar bills stacked on top of one another. Each pack of money had a five thousand dollar band tightly wrapped around it. Fifty, one hundred dollar bills to a stack. With four rows of ten, there was two hundred thousand dollars on the top row and it went five rows deep, a million dollars. Somehow this holy man and this man of God, had accumulated a million dollars in cash.

The thieving bastard had a million dollars. A man devoted to God, how does he accumulate a million dollars in cash without stealing it? Just as she was about to leave him there and abscond with his money, she noticed a second briefcase. He had another briefcase just like the first. She opened that too. In the same way the first briefcase was packed, so wasn't the second one. Two million dollars in cash. She had two million dollars in cash. With this kind of money and with her moving far away, somewhere they couldn't extradite her, Belize, Switzerland, or the Cayman Islands perhaps, she'd be set for life.

To be continued...