Tyler's office
Kellie and Tyler were the first to arrive for the meeting.
"We can still get you properly dressed," Tyler said.
"Are you always this stuck up?" Kellie asked.
"Just around little girls who have nothing better to do than play mob princess," Tyler said, "or in your case it's mob trailer park trash."
"Do you want to finish this in the parking lot, city boy," Kellie said, "I would love to mess up your pretty boy face by grinding it into the asphalt."
Tyler stepped toward Kellie, causing her to back towards the wall. He ran his hand down her side, "Why don't we finish this in the bedroom, miss frozen tundra?"
Roy and the accountant walked in as Kellie grabbed Tyler's hand twisted it upwards and used her free elbow to hit him in the groin. She turned to Roy and said, "I'll give you a minute to tell your city boy attorney to keep his hands off me as well as stop to stop acting like he's better than I am simply because I prefer a t-shirt and jeans." She walked out.
"Tyler, did you really read the entire file I gave you on her?" Roy asked, "Because apparently you missed the memo on not touching her."
"How messed up is this chick?" Tyler asked, still lying on the ground in pain.
"All I know is she has serious issues when men touch her," Roy said, "She almost blew an undercover assignment because of it recently. You may not like her, but you have to work with her because she is the only link to the people up top we have right now."
Kellie entered the room, "Are you done squirming like a baby, long enough to start the meeting?" she said to Tyler.
"I told him not to antagonize you," Roy said, "I expect you not goad him in return, Miss Corinthos."
"Fine," Kellie said, "and please call me by my first name."
"Someone has daddy issues," Tyler said.
"Can we muzzle him until I need him to say something?" Kellie asked.
"Why don't we skip the formalities and get to the point?" the accountant said.
Kellie pulled a jump drive out of her pocket. Her jacket moved to the side and her gun was visible.
"You weren't joking when you said you carried a gun," Tyler said.
Kellie glared at him and handed the jump drive to the accountant. "I need you to look at the two sets of books I have on here and tell me what they mean." He pulled out his laptop and went to work.
"Roy, I want you to explain the problem here to me," Kellie said.
"We haven't heard anything from Port Charles in months," Roy said, "When we tried to initiate contact, no one got back to us."
"We did hear a few weeks back that the business was doing great all around," the accountant said.
"But that's not true," Kellie said, "Aside from the island, this is the only other operations that is doing strong, everything else is.."
"I want to know why you're here," Roy said, "Up until a few days ago, you weren't even on the radar. Now you're in Sonny's business like you own the place."
"Why don't you start with South America?" Tyler said, "I'd like to hear about that."
"I am never going to live that down apparently," Kellie said, "I heard numerous conflicting things about the organization, from Jason Morgan's defection to the threat of a takedown. Most everything I heard was conflicting and the word internationally is that communications are messed up big time because the Corinthos empire is weak and lacking structure in spots. After my last and final assignment, the rumblings of a threat were loud enough, I decided to go home and see what I could find out there."
"What have you find out?" Roy asked.
"Sonny has pretty much isolated himself from the rest of the world and thinks nothing is wrong," Kellie said, "The one shipment I did help unload, entire crew was silent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe that's normal."
"Most crew members talk amongst themselves," Roy said, "Someone didn't want you to hear something."
"It is an inside job," Kellie said, "Whoever plans to attack has people on the inside at the highest levels. You can't contact anyone outside Miami. Anything I hear or don't hear is scrambled."
"If our operation is the strongest, whoever's planning this will try to destroy us first," Roy said.
"Once Miami is down," Kellie said, "A mob war will erupt because territory will be up for grabs and lots of it. I need to know if you're willing to trust me."
"It seems to be my only option," Roy said, "as long as you aren't telling me how to run this joint."
"You've done a good job here," Kellie said, "I don't intend to interfere."
"What do you need from me?" Roy asked.
"I want to see how you run things," Kellie said, "If I can get Sonny to see the light of day we'll have to clean house, change things up. I'll be the first to admit I'm flying half blind. I need ideas."
"We can do that," Roy said, "Is tomorrow okay?"
"That's fine. I need to meet with one of my contacts tonight anyway," Kellie said, "The only person you trust from Port Charles is me unless I say otherwise. I obviously can't trust the current bunch of employees. I need to know if you can have resources ready for me to use at a moment's notice with out weakening your hold here."
"It's doable," Roy said, "Are you done with those files, Oscar?"
"Well one is a copy, some of it dating back to books Port Charles sent us months ago to audit," Oscar said, "Those show everything as being financially stable. The second file matches up with what Kellie was saying about the strength of the organization."
"Who sends you the copies of the books?" Kellie asked.
"Bernie," Oscar said.
"Where did you get these?" Roy asked.
"I went into to Bernie's office when he wasn't there and copied them," Kellie said, "The first file was on a desk top out in the open. The second one was on a laptop hiding among his books."
"You realize Bernie's probably your point man for the other side," Tyler said.
"I'll keep that in mind," Kellie said, "Keep that copy I gave you. I'll be in touch to go over the operations."
"Are you sure you should be running around with out a guard?" Roy asked.
Kellie laughed, "Do you have any idea what I did to Jason Morgan the first time our paths crossed?"
"After what you did to Tyler here, I'm not gonna ask," Roy said.