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She walked over to Theresa’s desk while Chad placed himself in a spot that let him see down the hallway to the rest of the offices but also allowed him to watch Jennie. She quickly began opening desk drawers.
“Did you get her computer password in case we need it?” Jennie asked quietly. Everyone had their computers password protected, but the tech department kept the passwords on file and all employees knew their computers could be accessed by the company without notice.
Chad grimaced. “TWESTON.”
It took Jennie a minute to process that.Ugh. Not good.That alone would probably be going into the file as part of their justification for letting her go.
The third drawer Jennie opened got them what they needed. A folder sat underneath the intra-company phone directory. Jennie opened it to scan the contents and gave Chad a nod.
She shut the drawer, file in hand, and both she and Chad slipped back into his office. She spread out the contents of the folder on his desk.
There were several printouts of email messages that supposedly showed communications from Jill to Kelly. The emails showed Jill bragging about getting Andrew to sign a prenuptial agreement, then detailed information about Andrew’s accounts and property he owned.
“This isn’t Kelly’s email address and I’m willing to bet this isn’t Jill’s either,” Jennie said.
Chad flipped through the pages of emails. There was an invoice from a private investigator. The invoice was written to Jill Walsh and charged $550 for investigative work regarding Andrew Weston’s personal financial records.
There were several newspaper clippings that mentioned or featured Andrew. They dated back as far as a year.
The last item in the folder was a prenuptial agreement between Jill and Andrew. Chad flipped through to the final page of the contract and read the signatures.
“This looks real. It’s Andrew’s signature, at least. He also told me about the prenup,” he said.
“Then she probablyhadjust come out of Andrew’s office when I saw her that day. This other stuff all looks fake. She’s setting Jill up, I’d guess. Trying to make it look like Jill is after Andrew’s money?”
“I’ll see if Andrew and Jill can meet us over at Jack’s,” Chad said.
Jack and Kelly’s housekeeper, Mrs. Poole greeted Chad with a warm hug and then showed Jennie and Chad into the living room, where Jack, Kelly, Andrew, and Jill waited.
“I’ll have dinner ready in about thirty minutes,” Mrs. Poole said before leaving the room. She obviously loved to mother everyone whenever she had the chance.
Chad handed Andrew the folder Jennie had found and Andrew and Jill sat side by side flipping through the contents. Jill gasped when she saw the emails in the folder, but before she could speak, Andrew did.
“The emails are fakes,” Andrew said. “I’m guessing the invoice from the private investigator is fake, too. Jill didn’t hire him, but it’s possible Theresa posed as her and hired him. That or it’s just a forgery. It’d be easy enough to create a fake invoice. The newspaper articles and the prenuptial agreement are real. The prenup was filed in my office.”
Jill smiled up at him, warmth obvious in her gaze at the realization that he hadn’t questioned the veracity of the materials for even a second. There wasn’t a shred of doubt about her loyalty to him anywhere in his voice. There wasn’t a hint of question in his eyes when he leaned in and kissed her gently.
Jennie’s heart felt battered and bruised whenever she was near Jack and Kelly and now she could add Jill and Andrew to that list. She didn’t begrudge them their happiness at all, but it didn’t make her pain any less in the face of that kind of devotion.
“I called Jarrod and asked him to meet us here. He should be here soon,” Chad said as Andrew passed the folder over so Jack could look through.
Jarrod Harmon was a friend of Chad’s on the police force.
Chad went on. “This gives us all we need to fire Theresa, but I think this also goes farther. When we found this, I had to wonder if Theresa might have had something to do with Debbie’s mysterious mugging and Patty’s hit-and-run.”
“Oh, My God, do you really think she’d do that?” Jill asked.
“I’ve seen the way she watches Andrew,” Jennie said. “And I saw the way she looked at you at the holiday party. If given the chance, I think she would have torn you apart, Jill. It was scary.”
Before Jill could answer, Mrs. Poole showed Jarrod into the living room. The tall, lean man’s face looked grim and he didn’t stop for niceties.
“I ran a little check on Theresa Sawyer and her car matches the description of the car that hit your employee last month. I was also able to look a little further back in her record than your typical employee background check goes. It was a long time ago, but she does have some charges against her. There were a couple of trespassing charges and a breaking and entering charge. Those are often the kind of thing we see on the records of stalkers.”
Andrew handed Jarrod the folder with what they’d just uncovered and went through what was real and what was fake.
Jarrod flipped through the materials, scanning quickly. His eyebrows went up and he looked at Andrew. “You signed this?” Jarrod asked, indicating the prenup.
Andrew laughed and Jill’s cheeks flushed. Jarrod was looking at the page with the penalty clause.
