Trigger: Day 19

Word Count: 114,021

Summary of Events:

Thanks to James having taken a photo of Brody's contact information for Rylie, Spencer was able to find her surname through the phone book; he then hacked the postal system database to learn her address. Seeing as he'd encountered media on the north side the night before, Spencer was very cautious in making his way back there again to Rylie's house where he was able to get in and disarm her security system without incident before discovering that she'd split up her $1 billion and hidden it all over the house; he thoroughly searched the house several times to find it all . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

Finally he went to the master bedroom where he found $1 million in the dresser and $5 million under the bed — which brought him up to $12.5 million. $1 million in each side of the walk-in closet and $500,000 in the ensuite vanity brought the total up to $15 million.

In other words, he was 1.5% of the way to $1 billion.

Meticulously he went through everywhere he’d already been and ended up finding another $10 million hidden in bookshelves, decorative plants, under appliances, even more in the freezer, and even attached to fan blades and other light fixtures, which brought him up to $25 million.

Lastly he headed downstairs and found money in $500,000 groups almost everywhere he looked until finally he added it all up and found that he had $990 million on the table.

He scoured desperately for the last $10 million, but in the end, having scoured as thoroughly as he could possibly have scoured, he only ended up finding $9,900,000. He was missing $100,000.

Still, $999.9 million was way more money than a person could fit in the average drawstring backpack. Even the average wheelbarrow wasn’t necessarily big enough to fit that kind of money.

Were thousand-dollar bills a thing?

But then how could a bill with all the same digits in its serial number save one have turned up on the West Coast?

Too, if it had all been in thousand-dollar bills, that would be one million bills, and even one million bills was a little hard for him to visualise fitting into a drawstring backpack.

He even found it hard to believe that the bank had even had this much money in their vault, but they must’ve, somehow.

Surveying the table laden with money, he surmised that the final $100,000 was with Rylie, being exchanged for bills that — like these ones — didn’t have the serial numbers Second National Bank had published as being bills that’d been given to her.

Now, it appeared, he had to wait for Rylie to get back with that last hundred grand so that he could inform her that he’d found her, and that he was going to make her pay for what she’d done.

He looked over at the clock on her stove. It told him the time was currently 10:24 at night. Last time he’d tracked her on the bus she’d come back to the north side at midnight.

In other words, he had the better part of an hour and a half to kill.

Scanning what he could see of the house — which was a fair bit, seeing as it was one of those modern open-concept types — he wondered what he should do.

Should he maybe see what he could do to find a complete set of fingerprints on various items in the house? That would be challenging. It might take him an hour and a half to do.