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We all have. On paper, Paul and Zealy were a much better match. But Paul was a player, with a girl in every port; even Zealy, gorgeous, sexy, eligible Zealy, couldn’t seal the deal. And then, just three months after Marc and Sian’s wedding, he suddenly marriedCatherine, a girl he’d never even looked at twice.
‘Just spit it out, Quinn,’ I say.
She cradles her glass against her chest, but doesn’t drink it. ‘I don’t think the thin man ever existed,’ she says. ‘I think Catherine made him up, to protect Paul, and he married her to keep her quiet.’
‘Wait.What?’
‘I think Catherine knows what kind of man Paul is,’ Quinn says. ‘I think she’s always known, but she doesn’t care. She listened at doors and peeped through keyholes at that wedding, waiting for her chance. And when Lottie disappeared, she invented the whole spiel about the thin man to throw everyone off the scent.’
‘What kind of man Paul is?’ I repeat.
‘Do you really need me to spell it out?’
My first instinct is to defend him. Paul Harding has been one of the Foundation’s most loyal supporters from the beginning. There’s never been any suggestion he likes little girls. He likeswomen. If Quinn had told me he was screwing around on Catherine, I’d believe it. But children? He’s just not that kind of man.
If the last two years have taught me anything, it’s that there’s no such thing asnot that kind of man.
Paul and Catherine.
Lottie would have trusted them both.
