Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Paid to Watch
I was still sitting on the floor with the folder open when he came in.
He had a pump wrench in one hand and was saying something about the bilge.
He stopped in the doorway.
He looked at the box. He looked at my face.
He set the wrench down on the galley counter very carefully.
"Thalia."
I held up the photograph.
"You took this," I said. "At the rehearsal dinner. From the bar."
He didn't lie.
I'll give him that, later. I didn't give it to him then.
"Yes."
"Before you told me not to marry him."
"About ten minutes before."
I put the photograph down on the floor next to me, face up, so we could both see it.
The girl in it was laughing at something with her eyes on Corbett's face.
"Who pays you?"
He came in and sat on the edge of the folding table, as far from me as the room let him.
"The insurer. The one that paid out on the Lady Margaret."
"How long?"
"A year last March."
"For what?"
"Somebody in their fraud office never liked the claim. The hull was insured for eleven million. Corbett collected in six weeks. They wanted a diver who knew the wreck and hated the family."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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