Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar novel · Chapter 18 of 32

Chapter 18: The Fees

I read every page of it at Ida's table.

Four pages, typed with two fingers, with the letter e jumping above the line because her machine was older than both of us.

Subject Thalia Vane is not a suspect.

Subject located the true position of the Lady Margaret's stern from W. Stoddard's own ledger and has turned the ledger over.

Subject has been unpaid and uninformed for five years.

Subject is a witness.

At the bottom, after his signature, he had typed one more line.

I resign this assignment effective today. Stop all payments.

I put the pages down.

"Why didn't he tell me?"

"Because then you'd have forgiven him for the wrong reason," Ida said. "He knows you. Go to bed."

I slept in her spare room under the duck quilt.

I didn't sleep long.

At seven Jasper's truck started on the other side of the yard and pulled out the gate.

He hadn't come to the house.

Ida was at the stove in her robe.

"Where's he going?"

"Downtown," she said. "Broad Street. The insurance people."

"For what?"

She put a plate of eggs in front of me.

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