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“To tell him about your surgery.”
“How do you know this?” asked Pen.
“Tabon told me. He also told me to pay attention and let him know if anything else seemed off about her. I told him that’s just how she is. I mean, I love her, but she’s always been kind of a bitch.”
“Are you talking about Tara?” asked Quinn, coming in and flopping down on another chair.
“She called Aine’s boyfriend—”
“Ex-boyfriend,” Aine interrupted.
“Right. Ex-boyfriend to tell him about her surgery.”
Quinn nodded. “As far as her being a bitch, I don’t think she’s more of one than all of us have been at some point in our lives.”
Penelope shook her head. “No, it’s worse. A lot worse. Her moods are all over the place. I almost didn’t come, because I didn’t feel like dealing with it, but I wanted to see all of you. Today she took off with the car, and I have no idea where she is. Remember the credit card issue? Guess whose name the rental is in.”
“You have no idea whatsoever why she’s…um…bitchier than usual?” Aine asked.
“None.”
“Hmm,” said Quinn, looking at her phone.
“What?” All three asked.
“Are you aware that Mr. Emsworth is being investigated for securities fraud?”
“No,” gasped Ava. “What does it say?”
Quinn read the short article that she found online out loud.
“That explains the credit card issue, but what did she hope to gain by contacting Stuart?”
“Maybe she was trying to be nice, Ava.” Quinn looked over at Aine. “I mean, did she even know you’d broken up?”
“Oh, yeah,” Pen answered before she could. “She wasn’t exactly happy about it.”
“Because of Griffin?” asked Aine. “Nothing happened between her and him, I know it didn’t.”
“Maybe she’s jealous,” said Quinn.
“Of what?” Ava stood and walked over to the sliding glass door. “Her father’s being investigated for securities fraud. Our father tried to kill us. If Aine and I find a little happiness in this life, I don’t think anyone should wish us otherwise.”
Aine couldn’t say what or why, but something in her gut told her there was more to Tara’s behavior than her father being investigated. “Have you called her?”
“Just once every fifteen minutes. She won’t answer her phone.”
“Tabon knows where she is.”
“What?” Pen shrieked at the same time Aine and Quinn did.
“He just texted me. She’s pulling in now.”
“Where in the hell have you been?” shouted Pen when Tara walked in the front door.
“What the fuck?” Tara shouted back, making Aine cringe. She didn’t even sound like herself.
“You just take off without a word to anyone. You wouldn’t answer your phone. We were worried about you.”
