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upstairs to his apartment. He got up around 1:00 a.m. and quietly got dressed, went to his jeep, and got the shovel. He went to his secret place in the bird sanctuary hidden in the Mangroves. He didn’t turn on his flashlight until he was deep in the woods. He stepped off eight paces from a tree then put the shovel in the ground and started to dig. Within ten or fifteen minutes he hit the cover of the steel box, pulled it out and opened it. It had no padlock. What was the use? If it were found, the finders would get it open lock or not. When he opened it, there was five million dollars in twenty dollar bills, all in zip lock bags of twenty thousand dollars each. Twenties have bulk, but you can pass them anywhere. Not so with fifties or hundreds. He put the five million in two dive bags, filled in the hole, and then threw the shovel into the swamp. He went to his boat and took down the bolsters on the v- berth, put the cash behind them, then put them back up and secured them.
    He was very quiet on the dock then went upstairs to his apartment. He poured vodka and went out to the patio in the dark. He saw Mercedes come home about 2 a.m. and just laughed to himself when he thought about what he had seen between her and Bill one night. He heard a door downstairs open, and Nikki appeared then walked across the dock to Mercedes’ apartment, did not knock, just walked in with drink in hand. Glenn just sat there thinking, ‘What the hell is going on and every other time he was there, too.’ He made several more drinks and fantasized between being there and thinking what the hell is going on?
    At about 5 a.m. the door to Mercedes’ apartment opened and there stood Nikki and Mercedes locked in a long kiss. Then Nikki went home, and Mercedes shut her door. Between sex fantasies and wondering what they were up to, Glenn couldn’t get to sleep for several hours.
    In the morning, over coffee with Nikki, she did not bring up last night so Glenn thought to himself, ‘they are together, and she has never kissed me like that. It was 2 a.m. when she went there with a drink in her hand. When Nikki left, Mercedes had her robe open when she kissed her goodbye.’
    Glenn and Nikki both went to work. The day was uneventful. Later that night after a couple or three or four drinks, Nikki came to Glenn with a blue pill and started to make moves on him. Before too long, they ended up in bed for three or four hours then fell asleep in each other’s arms.
    Nothing happened on the dock that day. Saturday morning around 1:00 a.m. Glenn left all for Cuba. He left Nikki, the marina, and the trouble with the DEA, and the trouble about Jim. He left Nikki a note saying: “I’m sorry but don’t try to follow me. I’m going to the Bahamas by boat. The $250,000.00 I gave you is a gift. Goodbye. Love — Glenn” 
    Nikki read the note and ran outside to see if his boat was gone, and it was. She started to smile and then laughed out loud. She went to Mercedes’ apartment and rang and rang the bell until she opened the door. Still laughing she gave the note from Glenn to Mercedes to read.

 
     
     
    CHAPTER 9
     
     
    Nikki asked Mercedes, “When Glenn and I were in bed did you go to his boat and neatly take half of the money?”
    “He will never know I was on board,” replied Mercedes.
    “How much was there?” asked Nikki.
    Mercedes waited the proper amount of time then said, “Five million dollars!”
    They jumped up and down and hugged and kissed.
    “So you took two or three million dollars without a trace?” she asked.
    “Not a trace,” said Mercedes.
    “Good. First he won’t know for weeks, second he’ll have enough money to live on without coming back, and third he has no clue about us taking the money. He was so hot from seeing us the night before, I could hardly stop him when you were done and had gone home,” Nikki said.
    They kissed again and Nikki asked for and got her million. Then she went home to lay out her plans to drop a