and you’ll be mailed a copy. Under Florida law, she stands to inherit everything you have.”
“I just can’t believe this,” Evan said, shaking his head.
“If not for Annika’s move toward you at lunch, Gigi would now be a very rich widow.”
“Can you prove all of this?” Evan asked.
“No,” Stone said.
“If you’re right, this guy is just going to keep coming after me, isn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“What should I do?”
“First, let me find you a Key West attorney and file for an annulment.”
“How long will that take?”
“I don’t know, perhaps several weeks.”
“And what am I going to do for that time?” Evan asked.
“Well, for a start,” Stone said, “don’t consummate the marriage.”
“What else?”
“Only one person can connect Gigi to the shooting today,” Stone said. “So we’ve got to find a way to persuade Manny White to tell us everything.”
“How are you going to do that?” Evan asked.
“I don’t know,” Stone said, “but you can’t go back to your cottage. We’re going to have to move you to someplace safer.”
Tommy spoke up. “My department has a little house we use to stash witnesses sometimes,” he said. “I could take him there.”
“Where’s Gigi at the moment?” Stone asked Evan.
“She went for a walk.”
“Then let’s go move you out of that cottage right now,” Stone said.
“You want me to just disappear?”
“You have to.”
“What am I going to tell Gigi?”
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“Not a thing. You can leave her a note saying you had to go to Connecticut; your grandfather has had a stroke. That might even buy us some time, since she knows that if he dies, she could inherit even more money.”
“We’re wasting time,” Dino said.
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