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“Do you know who that is?” Allie asked, pointing at the picture of herself on the back wall.
“Yeah,” Daisy said slowly. “It’s Alegra Harris. Her dad owns this place.”
Allie’s heart began to beat faster at the thought of outing herself. “She’s part owner too,” she murmured.
“And a friend of yours, I guess?”
Allie frowned. “What?”
“Your dad and her dad are friends, right?”
“Oh. Um …”
“Everyone thinks I’m being paranoid, thinking you came to spy on us, but it was pretty obvious to me. If not outright spy, then I knew you’d be reporting back.”
“Because I know the owner,” Allie said, kicking herself for not figuring out sooner why Daisy was so cagey around her. It made even more sense now … of course Daisy would be paranoid. She had something to hide.
“I hope you’ve been telling them that the staff work hard and are good at their jobs,” Daisy all but snarled.
“I …” This would be a good time for Allie to take control of the conversation, but she still wasn’t sure how to navigate the situation. “Look closer at the picture,” she said, moving around the counter to stand beside it.
It took Daisy a moment to move. “What am I looking for?” she asked as she stared at it.
“It’s me,” Allie said, confused that Daisy couldn’t see that.
“What?” Daisy tilted her head and shuffled closer. “That’s …” She straightened up, looked at Allie, then back at the photo. “You’re Alegra Harris?”
“Yes. I own the golf club. With my dad.”
Daisy edged backwards, and Allie could almost see the cogs of her mind whirring. “So you were outright spying?”
“Yes. And it’s a good thing I was.”
“Is that even legal?” Daisy asked, her voice rising in both volume and pitch.
“You can’t seriously be worried about whether what I did was legal?”
“It definitely wasn’t moral,” Daisy said sternly.
Allie couldn’t help but laugh. “I don’t think you get to judge anyone’s morals, not given what’s going on here.”
Daisy’s eyes snapped to hers and flashed with panic. “You know?”
“You must have known you’d get found out eventually.”
“Don’t act as though I’m the problem here. If you were running your business properly, things would never have got to this.”
“That’s not really a good enough excuse …”
“Well you would say that,” Daisy snapped. “You drive a Porsche while you pay hardworking staff minimum wage.” She shook her head, a look of disgust on her face that made Allie concerned she might be some kind of psychopath. Surely she couldn’t genuinely think that what she did was okay, under any circumstances. “I guess I’ll leave you to lock up.” With a long cold glare, Daisy slammed her keys on the counter then stalked out of the front door.
For a moment, Allie stayed rooted to the spot, then finally released a long breath and tried to get her brain to process what had just happened and figure out what she needed to do next. For the sake of her dad’s stress levels she’d like to keep him out of it, but knew that wouldn’t be possible. There was no way she could keep it from him. Apart from anything else she wasn’t at all sure what the process was for something like this. Embezzling money was a crime, so she supposed she’d need to involve the police.
Her phone rang, putting a stop to her racing thoughts.
“Your timing is perfect,” Allie told Bella through the phone. “You won’t believe the day I’ve had.”
“I’d like to say you won’t believe my day either, but I imagine you know why I’m calling.”
