The One Night Stand by Elizabeth Hayley

Author:Elizabeth Hayley [Hayley, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Multicultural & Interracial, Sports, Contemporary, Romantic Comedy
ISBN: 9781943772964
Google: JX87DwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B075RHHY51
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2017-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Over the course of the next week, Rachel made it her mission to discover something about the club that would prove Gabe wasn’t involved. At least not to the extent that he had any real ties to it other than possibly being a member. Because when she eventually published the article—she’d have to if the club existed, which she was pretty sure it did—she couldn’t let Gabe’s name appear in it.

But why would Gabe be receiving statements from Helping Hands if he didn’t have direct ties to the club? She hoped that everyone who belonged to the club got a statement like that, but she had no way of knowing. Well, no ethical way. It wouldn’t make sense that Mike would have chosen Gabe, who had only played in the area for a few years, when Mike most likely had lifelong friends who would be willing and able to inherit the club.

But that revelation did nothing to calm her nerves. Once the story published, her relationship with Gabe would be over. There was no coming back from what she’d done, and she knew that. She couldn’t say she was there writing an article about Gabe and then publish one about a secret club, even if Gabe’s name was never linked to it. She’d betrayed his trust. Trust that she valued.

And the truth was, she hadn’t found anything worth investigating. At least not without using illegal means to do so. Jared had already gotten some information about the bank, but it had been general information about its location and use. She’d scoured every detail of the customer list he’d sent, but a list of names and addresses didn’t mean much. So those people belonged to the bank in some way? That didn’t prove anything. There were athletes and non-athletes alike, and she had no way of knowing which ones, if any, were involved in the club.

But then there had been a second email Jared had sent—she assumed with Gabe’s financial records—the one she’d seen appear in her inbox but had never opened. Whether her reluctance to take that step was due to her morals or the fact that she was scared she’d see Gabe’s role in all of this she didn’t know. Still, the email had remained closed. Though when she'd received it, there was something inside her that told her not to delete it entirely.

She opened her computer and hovered the mouse over Jared’s email, which he’d appropriately titled “In case you need it….” She needed it. She really needed it. But she couldn’t bring herself to look at it. At least not yet.

Picking up her phone, she scrolled through her contacts until she found Rick’s name. She hadn’t spoken to her boss in a couple weeks, and she knew he’d want good news. Unfortunately, she didn’t have any to give him.

When he answered, he sounded hopeful. “Rach, what’s new on the Philly beat? You find what you’re looking for yet?”

“No one says ‘Philly beat,’” Rachel said on a soft laugh, but she was thankful for the short reprieve from her worry.

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