Broken Trust by Mike Lupica

Author:Mike Lupica [Lupica, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

FORTY-FIVE

We came out of the restaurant and took a left on Boylston, another left on Dalton, and then another on Belvedere, on our way to Huntington. I asked how she’d come to work for Andrew Crain. She said she was a single mom, raising her son, working for one of Lith’s satellite tech companies, another start-up, in Silicon Beach.

“Divorced?” I said. “Widowed?”

“Divorced,” she said. “I was young. And stupid. And thought I was madly in love. I got pregnant. He left.” She shook her head. “The reason I never talk about it is that it always starts to sound like a bad country song. If it hadn’t produced my son, it was as if it never happened.”

“Don’t they say that if you ran country songs in reverse, they’d all have happy endings?” I said.

“It was my first bad decision with men,” she said. “And that is another subject I’d like to change, thank you.”

“Done,” I said.

She pulled her jacket tighter around her as we waited for the light to change on Huntington with the Colonnade across the street and the shops at the Prudential Center behind us.

“Want to tell me more about how you came to work for your boss?”

“Happily,” Claire Megill said.

“Was he around your company a lot, is that how you first met him out there?”

“I was working somewhere else when he hired me,” she said. “But a headhunter called one day and asked if I’d be interested in going to work for Andrew Crain. He was out in Southern California and took me to dinner. We talked for a long time that night. He asked how I liked my current job, which was at Apple. I said I liked it fine, but wasn’t being challenged, blah, blah, blah. And told him, quite honestly, that I was barely able to support my little boy and me on what I was making. I must have come across pretty well that night, because two weeks later I was working for Lith’s tech company out there. Six months after that, I had moved to Boston and became his assistant, with more responsibility, and for more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life.”

We passed the Colonnade.

“How can I find out if there’s a fox in the henhouse at Lith?” I said.

She smiled for the first time, fully. Almost happily. “Do people still use that expression?”

I smiled back at her. “Only when the wolf is at the door,” I said.

“Well, I’m certain I can help you with that,” she said. “I just can’t have Andrew and Ethan know that I would essentially be spying on my own company. Or have Clay get wind of it, for that matter. So we’ll need to be discreet.”

“One of my many specialties,” I said.

“Do I want to know what the other specialties are?”

“We’d need more time for me to list them all,” I said.

We were a couple blocks from her building when we heard the thunder and then saw the lightning over our heads, followed instantly by a violent rain.

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