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“None taken,” she says.
Suddenly Harry looks at me and Fiona. “We have all the pieces.”
“I get that.”
“Fiona,” Harry says, “tell me I’m right. There’s the Heart of Dark Desires, the—”
The other woman takes the book and opens it to a back page, but I think she knows all the pieces.
“There’s the Heart of Dark Desires, The lock—locket, Queen of Hearts tiara. The second piece, First Love’s Blush, a bracelet. Lover’s Delight, the necklace the mayor had before Hendrick stole it.” Her eyes flick to me. “The ring, Dark Obsession, the Soul’s Fire earrings and the Love’s Slave choker.”
Harry rolls her eyes and snickers. “I’m betting he sent that last one when all frustrated, kinky fuck.”
“Harry.” I snap my fingers. “Focus.”
“Lightening the mood, babe.”
“With your earrings, we have all of them.” I look at Fiona, then Vicky and finally Harry.
“And I have enough fakes, Lena.”
I know exactly what she’s saying. Beneath her “take no prisoners” and “no fucks to give attitude,” she’s scared.
It doesn’t matter if someone’s wrong about what the jewels. It’s what they think… And… I drag in a deep breath. And if they’ve got it wrong, when they find out…what the fuck are they going to do to us?
To Jac and Hendrick?
“Harry…”
She groans. “I knew it.” Stomping over to the table again, she digs through some things. “In my research, I found a whole lot of stuff on the Quinate, along with the families that wanted in and never made it.”
“Like the Kincaids,” I mutter.
“Not just them. There’re others.” She hands me some files, and I go over them. There’s a name I’ve heard. And it seems to be linked in the past to both the Agnossios and the Millers. And…
My chest hurts.
Fuck.
I don’t ask I go to her computer, but I do and start a deep dive. It doesn’t take long to find a bunch of obscure articles when I have got a name I didn’t have before.
Leandra Lucas. Now a matriarch of a different family. She’s with Jac’s father in the photo I’m looking at. It’s nothing special, a film opening, just a red carpet photo they attended. And…
The page six gossip hounds had a feeding frenzy because she was a beauty queen who’d been an actress with a future until she married. Until rumors of an affair with Miller started making rounds.
Her career ended.
The gossip piece is about how she was apparently overheard threatening to kill Miller senior for his part in her fate.
That’s what she said: “I’ll kill you for what you did.”
I look her up.
She’s still alive.
No one looked at her when Miller senior died. Because everything pointed to Hendrick.
What if she did it?
