Their fake cheating plan was working.
She and Zachariah might have gone a bit overboard with the booze when celebrating the success of the initial stages, but it was a celebration well earned. Sowing discord in other people's lives was something that was worth celebrating after all. But now with Zachariah long gone, and Madam Mo in the park feeding seeds to the pigeons.
Madam Mo, her hangover completely gone thanks to her secret hangover cure. was thinking. What she and Zachariah were doing was not all that different from what she had used to do back when her loan shark business had still been booming. creating lies about people and then using those lies to manipulate them had been a bit of a specialty of hers. But with this particular untruth things would be different. Had it been in the past with her acting on her own Madam Mo would have already gotten to the heart of the matter.
Money.
