Hope Harper Daddy's Monkey Business Work -

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.

Hope forced a smile. “That’s me.”

“When do you start?”

She confronted him at midnight, in the tent, while a chimpanzee named Cha-Cha watched them from a hammock. hope harper daddy's monkey business

Not in a cute, let’s-watch-Planet-of-the-Apes-marathon way. In a there-are-currently-three-spider-monkeys-living-in-our-dining-room-chandelier way. The monkeys weren’t performers

Hope’s blood went cold.