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“This thing with the girl, Donny’s daughter, was it worth it? Donny didn’t go into details, so I don’t know what exactly happened. I just know it was about her.”
I nod. “She was worth it.” Evie was, and the crazy thing about it is I’d do it all over again just to have her in my life.
“Then he’s wrong. See you tomorrow, kid.”
“Tomorrow.”
He gives my shoulder a reassuring squeeze then dips his head for one final goodbye.
I close the door when he leaves and rests against it, feeling the weight of a fifty-ton truck ease from my shoulders.
It’s not over yet, though. Making amends with my father is just one piece of me that needed repairing.
My phone rings and I pull it from my pocket because I think it’s Georgiou.
It’s not. It’s the resort. Only I don’t know why they’d be calling me.
I only answer because that sense of duty I had toward Donny is still there.
“Henry Dubois speaking,” I say.
“Hey, Henry, It’s Chad. I’m managing tonight. I know you aren’t on this project anymore, but I wasn’t sure who else to contact.”
“What’s going on?”
“I was just looking at the CCTV footage from last night, and it picked up a recording of that guy you told me about.”
He’s talking about Ricco. I was simply covering all bases when I was investigating, and I told him and the other manager that if Ricco ever came on the grounds, they should contact me directly.
“Really?”
“Yeah. He was on the grounds with another man I’ve never seen before. They came in from the woods and were near the Eden Lodge. It looks like they were meeting about something. I have images and footage. I take it they’re not supposed to be on the premises?”
“No.”
“I’m no detective here, but I don’t think they knew about the cameras at Eden Lodge. The under-construction signs are still up, but your father’s team finished renovation a few days ago, and the cameras were fit in. we’re just waiting for the interior decorators to come in before the building opens for booking.”
I think he’s right. They couldn’t have known about the cameras at the lodge, so who the fuck knows how long they could have had scheduled meets there.
The more important question is, what are they doing there?
That leads me to assume that Peter is still planning. He never stopped.
“What should I do?”
This doesn’t involve me anymore.
I should just tell him to contact Donny and let him deal with whatever shit this is.
But Chad has given me what could potentially be an opening to get my foot back through the door.
Clearly, some bad shit is still definitely going on, and it has Peter’s name written all over it—Peter who screwed with us last night. If I take the information, Georgiou and I could look into it and see what’s going on. It might get us back in Donny’s good graces.
Do I think it’s going to make him forgive us?
No. I don’t. He caught us in a scandalously shocking compromising position with his daughter.
He’s not going to forgive us anytime soon, but doing this might be that small thing that helps. If it helps me get Evie back, then it’s worth doing.
