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“Angel.”
“Don’t fucking Angel me. You hurt me, Jasper. You cut me deep when you thought I tried to trap you with a baby. Fuck you.” She slides her arms in the sleeves of her jacket and zips it up. I didn’t notice before but it’s one of my coats. Why is she wearing my coat? She must miss me too. “You thought I would stoop so low to have a baby and trap you without your consent. You think I’m some woman who would purposely hurt and trick you. I honestly did miss a day last month, I was stressed out and forgot to take it. I don’t care whether you believe me or not. But I’m going to be fine without you.
“You were right, I should have told you when I did, and I’m sorry, but I can’t deal with you right now.” Tears roll down her cheeks, and pain radiates in my chest because I caused them. “I’m glad you’re going to get justice for your mother, but please don’t call me unless it’s about our child.” With that, she storms out of the room.
Jasper
I’ve been going over and over in my mind about how I’m going to get back at Tommy and Katie. It’s not enough for me to just throw them in jail. I need to ruin their lives, to make what they did to my mother haunt them for the rest of their lives, so everyone who knows about them will know what they did.
If I throw them in jail, they can make up any story and find loopholes in the case, try to paint me as the villain, or try to get the evidence destroyed.
I drive on the highway like a manic. I need to call my grandfather, to inform him of what I’ve just learned.
I tell Alexa to call him, and Grandfather picks up on the first ring. “What’s go—”
“You were partially right. Tommy had something to do with my mother’s death.”
I hear a door slam in the background. “What do you mean?”
I thrust my hand in my hair as I bob and weave through the traffic. “The lady he paid off, Judy, came by my office earlier and gave me a thumb drive. It has a video of Katie drowning Mom. Tommy was there, but he allowed her to do it.”
He gasps and exhales loudly through the phone. “Dear God. I’m going to call the detective that worked on the case, and I need you to give me the thumb drive.”
“As soon as I leave his office, I’ll head over there.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“Don’t worry about it, Grandfather. I’ve got to go.”
“Jas—”
I hit the End button and pull up to the underground parking garage and park my Aston Martin before I head inside the building. I stop at the front desk and Malinda smiles at me.
“Jasper, fancy seeing you here.”
I stretch a fake smile across my face. “Do you know where my father is?”
“He’s in a meeting.”
“I’ll let myself up through the private elevator.”
Not giving her a chance to respond, I rush straight to the elevator, and instead of going to the conference room, I head toward the broadcast room. They are shooting a live news report right now, and Nick, who’s in control of the teleprompter, smiles.
“Long time no see, what brings you into this room?” Nick asks.
“I have something for you. I want to surprise my father with a gift, but I want to air it.”
I offer him the thumb drive and he sticks it into the tower of the computer. When he sees the video play, his face turns paler than a ghost.
“We can’t air this, Jasper.”
“Do it, Nick. Do it, and I’ll pay you enough money that you can retire for the rest of your life.”
“No, I won’t. I can’t. But…” He gets up from the chair. “I’m going on a coffee run. I’ll be back. Just don’t hit that button right here or it will air straight after the commercials.”
As soon as he is out of the room, I tap the red button and I type on the screen to prompt the news reporters on what to say, then I wait as anticipation crawls in my chest. I can’t keep my pulse from jumping like a thumping rabbit.
Tommy loves his image. Let’s see what happens when the world knows that the billionaire mogul and family man is a monster. I can see Netflix and Hulu doing a documentary on it.
