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Chapter XXXII – Empire State of Mind – Dive
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They were in diving into the deep blue by the isolated rock island because Bette’s reading of the information from Philip Halloran’s papers, using the codex that she’d finally been able to reconstruct, led her to conclude that over 3 tons of the gold cache had eventually been moved to the rock island, after it had been transported by air, land, and sea, criss-crossing continents before landing here.
During her visit with Jancis in the elder woman’s estate in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains, Bette was told that Jancis and Philip had broken up the gold cache on purpose, because they feared those chasing the gold were getting closer and closer to them. This part of the gold cache ended up in an obscure rocky island in Hawaii following a carefully executed plan Jancis and Philip had undertaken from late 2008 to 2009 to move 17 cargoes of gold of varying quantities and values from Perth, Australia, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Singapore, to London and New York, mainly, and then consolidated in Zurich. The gold had been officially declared at each of those destinations, but Philip and Jancis had managed to make the whole lot disappear after their transfer. And then they’d arranged for the gold to be moved to other non-traditional staging areas while they decided what to do about the gold cache as they feared those who were chasing the gold cache were close to figuring out what had been going on with the gold through the centuries.
After they decided to break-up the gold cache, Jancis moved some gold to an area in the maze of tunnels underneath a gold mining museum in Virginia. Bette had managed to retrieve that gold many weeks ago, with the help of Tom and Jules.
Meanwhile, Philip had arranged to move another part of the gold cache to Hawaii, but, by mutual agreement, had not told Jancis verbally, in case their communications were being intercepted. Instead, he’d used the code developed long ago by the original custodians who’d diverted the gold from criminals, to record what he had done, and then left this information amongst his papers. He had the papers sent to Jancis by courier when he suspected their enemies were closing in on him quickly. A day after he’d sent the papers off, Philip suffered an inexplicable aneurysm, and then slipped into a coma that he never recovered from.
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‘It could turn out to be a fatal mistake’ is the intriguing tempting sentence and then 21 pages later we’re still wondering!
Great Story over it’s many twists and turns and another great chapter. Thank you looking forward to 33.
Indeed still wondering about that sentence.
It is a very good and intriguing story, so many happens and it keeps you captivated to the end.
I like all appreciate the beauty of Brete, I like Tom drooling over Bette, Tina presume I like his love Bette, please keep writing and indulging with your stories, thank you very much!
I bet those fishing shops have nice little pointy knives…the kind you can strap to….well – where ever you can hide one ! The girls have to win ! Mr Green with the lead pipe in the library ! Get that snake off her path !
Love your story and look forward to every twist! I don’t even try to guess where you’re going, but just hang on for the bumpy ride. I’m probably in the minority, but I can’t stomach Tom! He is so inappropriate and disrespectful. A peeping Tom that doesn’t bother to hide in the bushes. At least Ashley called him out on his behavior. Cannot imagine Tina allowing him to be their donor and Bette allowing him to continually ogle her. Don’t imagine Bette would tolerate Miller acting that way towards Tina. Can’t wait for the next chapter.
Hi, am glad you are enjoying the story, and thanks for telling me what you think. Several thoughts in response: 1) the Bette in this storyline is an inveterate flirt, something that Tina has had problems with from the start ( see early chapters in “Let It Happen” and a few chapters in “Love Soul Heaven Hell), yet she believes she’s in control of it… we’ll see; 2) all the same, she is insanely devoted to Tina; 3) and Tina feels the same. But still, there was a point when they were questioning their expectations about the other (in their own ways; in “Let It Happen”). I have to say I once wrote out a couple of chapters that threw into that (crazy) mix an issue, sexual fluidity, that seems highly relevant to people. Or maybe fluidity expressed in various ways — one chapter that was going into “Let It Happen” after they broke up, and another for “Love Soul Heaven Hell” after the chapter on cheating), that explored those issues in an interlocking way. The chapters were interesting, and took the storyline in unexpected directions, but they each didn’t fit into the flow of the books, so I ended up shelving them. I may pick up on them again, because I think the topic is… well, topical!
In the meantime, I hope Tom doesn’t turn you completely off the rest of the story. (Maybe you can give him a break … don’t we all have those male friends who we know we won’t end up dating but like playing with, anyway?) :-) hope you enjoy the rest of the ride.
ok, from the fishing shop Miller gets a box cutter to be detected by Green’s detector which gives him a feeling of being clever. She also gets 2 or 3 large plastic cable ties, makes great restraints, some plastic fishing line that can be wrapped around the neck, easy and a lot of praying! Excellent chapter. Keep going!!!! PLEASE.
I do not like all this charm
Tom play Bette, ok! He and his friend
only he does not bother to hide
Tina how much he deseha his wife.
Changing the subject I like the pace
you put this story, we give many
decorer details about the narrative.
Waiting new chapter.
10 Stars.