Word Count: 102,007
Summary of Events:
Hammy and the agent in Afghanistan tried to get a visit with Dong Rhee, the thief, but the guards were intent on torturing him and Hammy ended up getting into a fight with the guards. Vera, Gemo, and the gemologists arrived at Gemo's girlfriend's house, only to be told no one was home and taken to a different gangster who lied that the painite had been his; despite Vera's best efforts, the gemologists paid him so as to escape with guarantee of their lives. Hammy realised that Dong Rhee had escaped, setting everyone off in pursuit of him; Hammy eventually caught him in a rooftop chase. Vera, Gemo, and the gemologists had been shown out of the gang's building when Gemo's girlfriend came over and started tearing a strip out of Gemo . . .
Excerpt of the Day:
""Somporn wrote a cheque of his own to Mr. Sambakhom and because yours failed to go through his failed to go through!" she shrieked. "And then you wouldn't wait when I asked you to because you needed to catch your stupid flight back to Italy! You didn't want to admit your lies! You wanted to get away with your robbery!"
"I didn't hardly spend anything last time I was here!" Gemo protested.
"Lies!" she screamed. "All of it lies! When they didn't get their money they captured Somporn and killed him! If I wouldn't have told them that you'd given him the money I'd be dead too!"
"I don't understand!" Gemo cried, looking on the verge of tears.
"All because of that stupid rock my brother is dead!" she shrieked. "I wish you had never come into my life! You have ruined everything!"
"But my love!" Gemo exclaimed.
"My love!" she screamed. "My love!? What love!? You don't love me! You never have and you never will! All you have done is ruined my life! You wanted me to have no attachment to Thailand so that I would go to your stupid Italy with you and remain your personal slave for the rest of your days! I want nothing more to do with you! I hope you are cursed for the rest of your days! I hope that you die a slow and agonising death! I hope your flesh rots while you still live! I hope that your body is eaten by the wild animals! I hate you!"
She tore at her ring finger and threw something shiny at him before turning and storming off in teary fury.
Vera watched her until she was gone and then turned to Gemo, who was on his knees, holding a small ring in his hand, tears streaming down his face, looking completely broken and destroyed.
"So that's what happened," Vera said.
"What?" Mr. Acaster asked.
"That's the whole reason almost a dozen people were killed," Vera replied. "All over money."
"I don't understand," Mr. Acaster said.
"Mr. Metharom needed money, so he sold the painite to Mr. Zanetti," Vera said. "Mr. Zanetti filled out the cheque, not realising he had insufficient funds in his bank account to pay for the stone. Mr. Metharom didn't realise this either, and wrote a cheque right away from his own bank account to pay the gangsters. Both cheques, as a result, failed to go through, so the gangsters kidnapped Mr. Metharom and interrogated him, and he told them he'd sold a stone to get the money, and who he'd sold it to, so they went after Mr. Zanetti, whom Mr. Metharom's sister was unable to detain, killed Mr. Zanetti's pilot and stewardess, as well as one of our members posing as a bodyguard. In-flight Mr. Zanetti was drugged so that he wouldn't hear the other four bodyguards being killed, nor noticed the plane landing in Cyprus to drop off the thief, who proceeded to Afghanistan before losing the stone, which ended up in Mr. Gimondi's possession as a result.""
Pronunciations:
Acaster: aycahster
Metharom: methahrohm
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