Chapter 45 Bought and Paid For
Whatever she’s actually buying with a payment this size, I can’t shake the feeling that six figures isn’t just gratitude for silence maintained over a decade. That kind of money buys action, not just continued discretion.
I sit at my desk the rest of the morning, turning the number over in my mind,...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Wrong Name, Right Room
2. Chapter 2 The First Lie I Told Him
3. Chapter 3 Too Close, Too Soon
4. Chapter 4 Clearance Denied
5. Chapter 5 A Man Who Notices Too Much
6. Chapter 6 Routine Review
7. Chapter 7 The Favor
8. Chapter 8 Closer to the Fire
9. Chapter 9 Someone Got Here First
10. Chapter 10 My Own Name, My Own Ghost
11. Chapter 11 The Woman in the Records
12. Chapter 12 Old Names, Old Debts
13. Chapter 13 What Jackson Already Knows
14. Chapter 14 Playing It Straight
15. Chapter 15 Under His Watch
16. Chapter 16 Bernard’s Hand
17. Chapter 17 I Never Knew Him (Lie)
18. Chapter 18 What Harry Found
19. Chapter 19 A Question He Won’t Ask Yet
20. Chapter 20 Finish What?
21. Chapter 21 The Woman at the Door
22. Chapter 22 She Knew My Father
23. Chapter 23 Emergency Hours
24. Chapter 24 Damage Control
25. Chapter 25 A Line We Didn’t Cross (Yet)
26. Chapter 26 Alone in the Office
27. Chapter 27 Terrifying, Being Trusted
28. Chapter 28 Someone Is Watching Us Both
29. Chapter 29 Misread
30. Chapter 30 The Investigation Escalates
31. Chapter 31 The Article Harry Found
32. Chapter 32 Too Quiet
33. Chapter 33 Face to Face
34. Chapter 34 Too Smooth
35. Chapter 35 Harry Digs Deeper
36. Chapter 36 Sabotage
37. Chapter 37 A Warning From a Stranger
38. Chapter 38 Richard Cromwell
39. Chapter 39 Following the Ghost
40. Chapter 40 Board Member Number Two
41. Chapter 41 The Inconsistency
42. Chapter 42 A Distant Relative
43. Chapter 43 Closing the Loop
44. Chapter 44 Someone Else’s Clock
45. Chapter 45 Bought and Paid For
46. Chapter 46 Nearly Caught
47. Chapter 47 Alone in the Dark
48. Chapter 48 The Olive Branch
49. Chapter 49 Dinner, Not Business
50. Chapter 50 Do You Trust Me?
51. Chapter 51 The Kiss I Didn’t Plan
52. Chapter 52 Wanting More
53. Chapter 53 Why I’m Pulling Away (Lie)
54. Chapter 54 Traced to My Terminal
55. Chapter 55 Trust Versus Evidence
56. Chapter 56 The Razor’s Edge
57. Chapter 57 Someone’s Trying to Frame You
58. Chapter 58 Makes the Fall So Much Better
59. Chapter 59 A Partial Name
60. Chapter 60 A Face From the Past
61. Chapter 61 The Trip
62. Chapter 62 Out of the City
63. Chapter 63 Interrupted
64. Chapter 64 Someone Tried to Access His Files
65. Chapter 65 Does She Know?
66. Chapter 66 Some Part of Him Still Can’t
67. Chapter 67 No More Resisting
68. Chapter 68 Priya’s Move
69. Chapter 69 The Ultimatum
70. Chapter 70 About Everything
71. Chapter 71 Trending
72. Chapter 72 Does It Mean Anything to You?
73. Chapter 73 Putting It Together
74. Chapter 74 Face Up on the Desk
75. Chapter 75 The Silence That Answers
76. Chapter 76 Out of the Building
77. Chapter 77 Inevitable
78. Chapter 78 Ten Years Waiting
79. Chapter 79 Not Finished
80. Chapter 80 What My Father Hid
81. Chapter 81 Bernard Ruspoli, Himself
82. Chapter 82 Half a Truth
83. Chapter 83 He Won’t See Me
84. Chapter 84 Lawrence Knows Something
85. Chapter 85 Told to Stay Silent
86. Chapter 86 What Susan Might Know
87. Chapter 87 The Leak Goes Public
88. Chapter 88 Answers He Doesn’t Have
89. Chapter 89 He Needs to Know
90. Chapter 90 Part of the Truth
91. Chapter 91 Real Proof
92. Chapter 92 An Alliance Neither Trusts
93. Chapter 93 Off the Record
94. Chapter 94 Harry Intervenes
95. Chapter 95 Choosing Her
96. Chapter 96 Already Disturbed
97. Chapter 97 Priya Was Here
98. Chapter 98 What Priya Left Behind
99. Chapter 99 A Signature He Knows
100. Chapter 100 Needing to Be Sure
101. Chapter 101 The Board Member’s Name
102. Chapter 102 Confrontation
103. Chapter 103 Don’t Dig Further
104. Chapter 104 The Call
105. Chapter 105 Moving Up the Timeline
106. Chapter 106 My Way Now
107. Chapter 107 What Priya Is Planning
108. Chapter 108 How Far He’s Willing to Go
109. Chapter 109 Susan’s Request
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