Heretics book 3 - The Apocryphile Press

THE KINGDOM :: 195
“We found it,” said Kat.
“Found what?” asked Richard.
“We found a money trail,” Kat elaborated.
“Well, we actually found a couple of them,” Susan added.
“And you’re not going to believe where they’re coming
from.”
“Try me,” said Richard.
“First we looked for a Lodge account. No dice, not with
any of the major banks, anyway.”
“Was...this all legal?” asked Dylan.
Susan ignored him. “So then we started looking at private
accounts. Those guys are either working under assumed
names, or they are as poor as church mice.”
“You mean Satanic Temple mice,” Terry corrected.
“They’re not Satanists,” Richard said with a slight note of
exasperation.
“Do Satanic Temples even have mice?” Dylan asked Terry,
ignoring Richard.
“Bats. I think they’d have bats.”
“Go on...” Richard encouraged Susan.
“So I went back to the flash drive. I found a spreadsheet
that very conveniently listed an account number. We traced
it to a free business account from Providence Savings and
Loan. That account just had a major influx of cash that posted
at 10am this morning, to the tune of $100,000.”
“Holy Christ,” Richard whistled. “That’s a small fortune
for guys like that.”
“That’d be a small fortune for us,” Dylan added.
“We are guys like that,” Terry admitted.
“Okay, so our suspicion was right,” Richard thought out
loud. “This isn’t entirely the Lodge of the Hawk and
Serpent’s doing—they have a confederate. The question that
strikes me is whether what the client is after is the same as
what the Lodge is after?”