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Is he the only one? Are there others? A man like Burnham makes for an overall easy target— and a scapegoat.
What a sell-out and a terrible bastard to boot.
So, he agrees to play a small role in their ridiculous scheme—but only because he’s receiving a substantial amount of hush money. Now that the plan has gone awry, he has everything to lose.
And I’m definitely going to make sure that happens.
What I don’t understand, and probably never will, is why he was campaigning against them in the meeting. If he was working for them, shouldn’t he be trying to have me sign the deal?
Being the little rat he is, he was probably double-crossing them too.
Disgusted, I snap the phone shut and give it back to Sara. She’s wearing a pensive look, waiting for my response.
“Who have you shown this to?”
“Just Dennis and his friend in Forensics.” She tilts her head. “You want me to call this one in, boss?”
I nod. “Do it. Now.”
“Just one more thing,” Sara calls out before I can get away. I turn and face her. If this is one of her shenanigans again, I’ll fire her too. I already warned her, so I hope she takes me seriously.
“Yes. What is it?”
She seems to squirm for a little while and says, “ I know you probably don’t want to hear this, and most likely won’t believe me, but I think Noelle isn’t as innocent in what happened as she is leading you to believe.”
I’m fuming. How dare she?
“What are you talking about? How can you say that? I listened to the whole thing.”
“You’re right. I’m sorry. It’s just that they were always whispering to each other and he was always complimenting her and she never seemed bothered by any of it. Never heard her complain about him once or even talking to him in any way that indicated she wasn’t interested in his advances.”
“That doesn’t mean anything. Like I said, I was there, I heard everything.”
“Again, you’re right. But did you see what was going on? Because roleplay is a thing between lovers, you know?”
I’m taken aback. “Lovers?”
“What I mean is sometimes things heard out of context can be deceiving. Just think about it. I’ll leave you now, Mr. Thatcher. Have a good day.”
As she is walking away, I’m numb. Unable to move, to react, to think.
There is no way Noelle was involved with Chris. No way!
Or was there?
Could what Sara just said be truth? Could they be roleplaying?
No, they couldn’t. Noelle hated Chris. I saw her reaction to him enough times to know she loathed and feared him.
But what if she was just roleplaying then too?
When I punched, he did say she had wanted it.
Could it be true?
As much as I want to believe in Noelle, this nagging suspicion is killing me. Maybe I should step back from her for a bit and see how things go from there before I go all in into a relationship that could probably just be one-sided.
The pain of losing Vanessa was devastating. I can’t go through a loss like that again. Even if it is just a break-up. Breaking-up is the death of the relationship, so the pain is just as overwhelming. Better to keep my distance now than letting my feelings grow to the point of no return.
