For Revenge...Or Pleasure? by Trish Morey

Author:Trish Morey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-09-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SHE reeled from this latest accusation, fury turning molten inside her. Enough of trying to placate the man. This was going too far!

‘That’s an outright lie!’

‘Is it? Were you there?’

‘Were you?’ she snapped back.

He smiled. ‘Nice try. No, but I have proof. I tracked down the theatre nurse who was there that night. She confronted Della-Bosca over her drug use after that operation and found herself unemployed and on the receiving end of a considerable amount of cash to ensure she took a very long holiday and kept her mouth shut.’

‘If this is true, why didn’t she go to the police?’

‘She was too scared—of Della-Bosca and the police. I tracked her down, only to have her die in an interstate collision the day before I was to meet with her and take her to the police.’

‘And that, I take it,’ she said, unable to resist the opportunity to show his case up for the fanciful supposition it was, ‘was down to Grace as well?’

His eyes told her he half believed it.

‘You’re not serious?’

He shook his head. ‘There’s no proof.’

‘And likewise you have no proof that Grace is guilty.’

‘I believe what the theatre nurse told me.’

‘You’d rather believe someone who wasn’t honest enough to go to the police in the first place? Doesn’t that tell you something about her from the start? I don’t believe what she said for a minute. Grace doesn’t do drugs. Don’t you’d think I’d know if she did? How can it be that I’ve never heard any of these stories?’

‘Because your charming doctor friend has paid to hush them up, same as she’s done every time. Paid to hush up the woman rendered blind after a failed eyelid lift. Paid to hush up the girl who caught her snorting a line of coke in her office. Paid—’

‘Stop it!’ Jade yelled, her hand clutching the air. ‘I don’t believe it—any of it.’

He had her arms in his hands. He’d crossed the room so fast she hadn’t realised. ‘You don’t believe it? Or you just don’t like to think your cosy partner has been found out? It must be some team effort, covering up for all her mistakes. Is that why you had to invent the foundation—to provide more funds for her drug use, to provide more hush money to cover up her mistakes?’

She was thrashing in his arms, trying to get free. ‘I’m not listening to any more of this. Let me go!’

His fingers squeezed tighter on her arms. ‘And as for not knowing—I think you know a lot more about your good doctor than you let on.’

He dropped his grip on her, almost thrusting her away from him. She turned away, rubbing where his fingers had bitten down deep into her flesh.

‘And if I did, why the hell would I tell you now? None of this makes sense, and I’m not going to contribute anything to this sick vendetta of yours.’

‘Don’t you understand anything?’ he said, lurching forwards again. ‘This is much more important than

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