The Fall by Evie Hunter

Author:Evie Hunter [Hunter, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2021-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

10

The three women shared a prolonged glance, but it was Lauren who broke the ensuing silence.

‘That’s not possible,’ she said. ‘Jeff is too well protected.’

‘Think outside the box,’ Nate said.

‘Perhaps he has a point,’ said Melanie tentatively. ‘We’re not being very inventive.’

‘You said yourself that you’d like to do more to hurt him,’ Sophie added.

Lauren snapped. It was bad enough that Nate had followed her here. Now he was doling out crazy suggestions like confetti and already had her friends eating out of his capable hands. The man had totally perplexed her. She didn’t need him in her life, didn’t entirely trust his motives but couldn’t stop thinking about him. He made her feel safe in ways that she had forgotten were possible and opening up to him seemed like the most natural thing in the world, even though it filled her with anger and shame whenever she admitted just how naïve she had actually been.

She wanted to trust him but couldn’t… well, trust her own judgement when it came to men. Jeff had completely taken her in. Was Nate attempting to do the same thing for the sake of a scoop? She didn’t really know much about him and couldn’t corroborate what he had told her. Then again, he had resources and a better plan than their feeble one to draw Jeff out. Perhaps she should stop analysing everything to death and go with the flow.

At least for now.

‘This might come as a big surprise to you,’ she said, glowering at him, not yet ready to cede control. ‘But I’ve done nothing else but think about revenging myself on Jeff bloody Williams for three years. If there was any other way to get at him, don’t you think it would have occurred to me by now? Contrary to what you obviously think of me, I’m not completely stupid.’

Her scathing comments merely served to amuse him. ‘But you’re not using that brain of yours either.’

‘I beg your pardon!’

‘Like I said, you’re not looking at the bigger picture. If we play him right, then his greed will be his undoing.’

‘Feeding him insider information won’t work, if that’s what you’re thinking,’ Lauren said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘They’ve tightened up their auditing procedures for reasons that escape me. No one at Whytelake’s can sneeze nowadays without the FCA crawling all over them. The company took a big hit by way of fines and are, a bit like me, I suppose, now on probation.’

‘Besides,’ added Sophie, ‘if he has all the money that he made Lauren steal, why would he want more?’

‘People like him never have enough. Money is power. Besides, if he forked out to have two people murdered, that will have made a big dent in his stash.’

‘But I still don’t see how—’

‘We create a situation that will tempt him,’ Nate said, talking over Lauren’s interruption. ‘If he heard of a potentially good investment, how would he check it out?’

‘The Internet,’ said Lauren and Melanie together.

‘And the financial press, I should think,’ added Sophie.

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