Betrayal of Trust by London St Charles

Author:London St Charles [Charles, London St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999328828
Publisher: LS Charles Publishing Group
Published: 2019-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Cedrick stared at the front door as though he expected it to talk suddenly. What just happened? What made Victoria so angry in a matter of seconds? He backtracked the conversation and couldn’t think of anything that he said that would’ve warranted that hostility.

What Cedrick did know for certain, was what a goodbye-I’m-never-going-to-see-you-again kiss felt like. He wrote the rulebook on that one. Though Victoria never coming around again was for the best, Cedrick felt a loss, and he wondered if this was how she felt when he left all those years ago.

The faint sound of a ringing phone snapped Cedrick out of his trance. He jogged up the stairs, taking two at a time. Sierra’s name flashed across the front of the screen, but the ringing ended by the time he pressed the button to answer. Six missed calls from her guaranteed an interrogation. Before he could call Sierra back, she’d called for the seventh time.

“What’s going on? Is Victoria there?” Sierra inquired, her voice quivering. “Mr. Alexander said a woman he’d never seen before had entered my house.”

“Really.” Cedrick snorted, outdone by the audacity of his nosey neighbor.

Mr. Alexander never minded his own business. It’s a good thing Cedrick didn’t have anything to hide. Or did he?

“I don’t have much time to talk before Yvonne comes back to her desk,” Sierra mumbled in a hushed voice. “Yvonne told me Victoria had asked her for my address, then got huffy when she refused to give it to her. Then she overheard Wilkerson’s assistant, give her my information.” Sierra sighed into the phone. “It’s taking every restraint I have not to confront her.”

“Don’t,” Cedrick warned, squinting in the bathroom mirror, rubbing the colorful sticky substance from his lips. “It’ll stir things up between you and Yvonne.”

“True, but she needs to be reported,” Sierra countered. “How many times has she given out employees or a client’s personal information before?”

“I don’t know, but to answer your first question,” Cedrick began, stretching his lips, checking the corners of his mouth to make sure all the evidence of Victoria’s lipstick had been wiped away. “Victoria did stop by.”

“What did she want?”

“Long story short, to know why I didn’t tell you about her,” he said, washing his hands. “The conversation didn’t go well. She misinterpreted what I was trying to say and stormed out.”

Cedrick wasn’t sure if he should tell Sierra about the kiss.

“You need to call her and see what she knows.”

“What?”

“Just to be on the safe side,” Sierra emphasized with a questioning tone. “I know she was here on business, but make sure that’s all she was here for, you feel me?”

“I’d rather not.”

“You said she was your best friend and helped you during that time, correct?” Sierra countered, but not waiting for a response. “You need to call her back. Do it now.”

Cedrick gnawed his inner jaw until he pierced the flesh. “Babe, I really don’t want to do this. I don’t know what Victoria’s true intentions are. In all the years you’ve worked for Edward, she’s never been a part of anything going on at the firm.

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