Hope | Harper Daddy's Monkey Business

“That’s what the IRS said! But Gibbons proved them wrong. He’s a visionary.”

Her father smiled. “That’s the part I haven’t figured out yet.” hope harper daddy's monkey business

“Daddy. What is this?”

Her father leaned in. “He’s not hiring trainers or handlers. He’s hiring a bookkeeper .” He tapped his temple. “Numbers, Hope. My other language. If I get this job, we can pay off Kevin’s vet bills. Fix the roof. Buy more bananas. Corporate bananas. ” “That’s what the IRS said

The monkeys weren’t performers. They were cover. The whole operation – the poker games, the tax-filing mandrill, the sequined vests – was a front for laundering money and smuggling confiscated primate habitats out of Africa. “That’s the part I haven’t figured out yet

“Hope,” he said, sliding a crumpled flyer across the sticky Formica. “I’ve done it. I’ve finally cracked the code.”