Chapter 64: The Name Not Spoken

William’s approach was a peculiar one.

Until Jorgreman had a clear target in mind, someone he could identify with certainty, he would never speak of the matter to anyone.

Speaking carelessly would only allow people who should never know about it to learn of something that could easily be described as a scandal, perhaps even a corruption case.

The first rule was silence.

He would keep silent himself and watch the people around him. Even after he eventually settled on a likely answer, he might not dare confront it directly.

But in his heart, he would arrive at a conclusion he considered absolutely certain.

And he would believe it was the correct one.

Over the past few weeks, there had only been one person connected to him who might reasonably provide thirty thousand dollars as a “reward.”

William.

There was no doubt about it.

The check had come from William.

And because he could not openly acknowledge it, he could not return it either.

The money would simply sink into his pocket and become a fact of its own.

As a Credit Department Manager, Jorgreman had countless ways of handling such a sum.

Whether depositing it into an overseas account or channeling it back into his personal accounts through investments, funds, or other legal financial vehicles, none of it posed any difficulty.

He flicked the check lightly and placed it inside a drawer.

At the same time, he understood something.

This would not be the first time.

Nor would it be the last.

For reasons he could not quite explain, he found himself looking forward to future cooperation with William.

The young man was interesting.

And this sort of thing depended above all else on one principle:

Mutual silence.

Several days passed quickly.

Early one morning, William drove a borrowed car into the bank’s private parking lot.

The money would be loaded there.

By the time he parked, the three account managers assigned to him had already been waiting for quite some time.

Excitement was written all over their faces.

One million six hundred thousand dollars in cash.

One hundred and sixty bundles of hundred-dollar bills.

When stacked together, the sight was genuinely astonishing.

Most people, no, almost everyone, would go through their entire lives without ever seeing that much cash piled together in one place.

They could only imagine it.

They could only say something like, “That must have been incredible.”