Chapter 79
Amber stared at her computer screen. Lines of numbers scrolled past, account numbers and dollar amounts. As the word Confirmed showed up at the end of a line, the list scrolled upward. Next line, Confirmed. Two more to go.
Her phone rang. It was Sandy. “How are the transfers going?”
“Nearly there. Just one more …” She swallowed hard. “And they’re done.”
Sandy let out a sigh of relief.
“I’m switching over to the other server now,” Amber said. “Just need to check and be sure … Yes! the B-G account has the new deposits. I’m going to make a couple of entries within their own system.”
“I probably don’t want to know this.”
“So true. Okay, I’ll let you go. Sandy—thank you.”
Amber raised her eyes to the ceiling as the call ended. Thank you, Sandy, thank you, banking system, thank you, whatever gods of money are out there watching over me.
She turned back to the internal B-G server once again, and entered dates beside each of the new deposits, effectively postdating them so it appeared the money had never actually left their account. It would give the auditors and accountants a headache, but eventually she hoped they would just assume an error had been made on their part and accept that everything really was back to normal.
Picking up her phone she tapped Gracie’s number. “It’s all done. Do you have the evidence?”
“It’s all coming down right now. Call the police and send them to this street,” she said, reading a name off a street sign. “I gotta go!”
Amber made the call, talking directly to Detective Howard. “Be sure to confiscate Cody Baker’s computer. The answers are in his bank accounts.”
Howard sputtered a little but agreed to at least have the Mesa Police Department detain Mr. Baker.
“And send someone out to Turf Paradise to get his father, Woody Baker. He may have been the mastermind behind the whole thing.”
Howard started to protest that Amber was not the one in charge here, but she hung up. She still had a few loose ends to tie up, starting with completely wiping the hard drive on the borrowed computer.