For Pavlo, money was becoming the salve for all his perceived wounds. Shitloads of it. Hilby’s TNI was making its $140,000 monthly payments to Orion like clockwork. Ward and Dickson of TM Systems had paid their $175,000 commission to MTC II. As Manatee’s first Rapid Advance customer, they would soon hand over control of their company’s revenues to Benveniste’s firm. Manatee would make sure MCI got paid on time for current network usage, and that Orion got its $22,000 a month for making TM Systems’ past debt disappear.
