Making the European accounts untraceable should be a snap. Ilona in the Rome office still owes Lilah a favor or three.
Involving Burkles from Texas could be trickier. Of course, these may turn out to have nothing to do with the Burkle she is familiar with -- she'll have to check that out first -- but if they do, there could be a conflict. It's not as though Lilah cares about Fred's family at all, but Wesley is still her best contact at the Los Angeles office. She has spent more than a little time contemplating exactly what she would have to do in order to alienate him forever; she's pretty sure that messing with Fred's Norman Rockwell relations would figure high on the list.
Of course, if she could pull this off without having her name attached to it, you're talking win-win. She indulges, for a moment, the idea that Wesley might even come to her for advice on the problem. Honestly, as though she cares about that.
She wants to know exactly what Sloane wants done with the frame-up, but she thinks he might prefer to explain in his own time. Too many questions might make her potential conflict more obvious.
Instead she responds to his comment, though she deliberately misinterprets it a bit. "I'd like to think so. I'm much more comfortable in a world of realpolitik than one run by the real naive patriots of the word." Here she's telling more or less the truth. If the current wars are really being run by oil interests, her only real regret is that she's not seeing any of the money.
"Call it a failure of imagination on my part, Mr. Sloane, but it's the people who really believe the rhetoric they spout who worry me."
Again, she's skating dangerously close to the truth, but she's curious how Sloane will react. She grew up surrounded by Cold Warriors, and, though she guesses that Sloane was born a decade after her own father, there's something about him that reminds her of the men who used to come and go late at night from the family house in Georgetown. She can't say why she feels this, and in a moment she feels silly. He's just a banker, a money man, who got the government on his back because he doesn't like to pay his taxes the conventional way. Anything else they say about him is just so much smoke and slander. Right?
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Involving Burkles from Texas could be trickier. Of course, these may turn out to have nothing to do with the Burkle she is familiar with -- she'll have to check that out first -- but if they do, there could be a conflict. It's not as though Lilah cares about Fred's family at all, but Wesley is still her best contact at the Los Angeles office. She has spent more than a little time contemplating exactly what she would have to do in order to alienate him forever; she's pretty sure that messing with Fred's Norman Rockwell relations would figure high on the list.
Of course, if she could pull this off without having her name attached to it, you're talking win-win. She indulges, for a moment, the idea that Wesley might even come to her for advice on the problem. Honestly, as though she cares about that.
She wants to know exactly what Sloane wants done with the frame-up, but she thinks he might prefer to explain in his own time. Too many questions might make her potential conflict more obvious.
Instead she responds to his comment, though she deliberately misinterprets it a bit. "I'd like to think so. I'm much more comfortable in a world of realpolitik than one run by the real naive patriots of the word." Here she's telling more or less the truth. If the current wars are really being run by oil interests, her only real regret is that she's not seeing any of the money.
"Call it a failure of imagination on my part, Mr. Sloane, but it's the people who really believe the rhetoric they spout who worry me."
Again, she's skating dangerously close to the truth, but she's curious how Sloane will react. She grew up surrounded by Cold Warriors, and, though she guesses that Sloane was born a decade after her own father, there's something about him that reminds her of the men who used to come and go late at night from the family house in Georgetown. She can't say why she feels this, and in a moment she feels silly. He's just a banker, a money man, who got the government on his back because he doesn't like to pay his taxes the conventional way. Anything else they say about him is just so much smoke and slander. Right?