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Rachel’s mouth went dry ‘What…what did his wife do?’
‘I thought you wouldn’t know about that It’s not the sort of thing a ether on Saturday night when you first introduced hiot to thinking about it last night and o, he was the one all right’
‘Eric, would you kindly just say what it is you’ve come to say?’
‘Your boss’s ex-wife has been Carl Toombs’ personal assistant for a couple of years now And I mean very personal He pays for her apartment and she travels everywhere with him Their relationship is a well-kept secret but that’s the reason she left her husband, to shack up h-profile boss You do knoho I’ about, don’t you?’
‘Yes, of course I do,’ Rachel snapped ‘I ht have been out of the workforce for a few years, but I wasn’t dead I don’t know of anyone in Australia ouldn’t knoho Carl Toombs is’
‘OK, OK, don’t get your dander up Anyway, Toombs is Charlotte’s client, the one ants to buy Sunshine Gardens Because of their business association, Charlotte’s had quite a bit to do with his beautiful blonde PA over the past feeeks, and you know girls They like to chat Anyway, the ex-Mrs McCarthy confided in Charlotte over lunch and a few Chardonnays the other day Apparently, darling Mandy is still suffering great gobs of guilt over her ex-hubby She told Charlotte how cut up he hen she left his so that he would hate her and forget her, but that she’d never forget the look on his face when she told hi sex with Toombs for some time She said she did love her husband and he was mad about her, but she simply couldn’t resist Carl’s advances She said Carl wanted her and nothing was going to stop hi her She said she thinks she broke her husband’s heart’
Rachel didn’t say a word She was too busy absorbing the full ramifications of Eric’s news
‘Froather he’s one very bitteryou, Rachel, you probably think he’s in love with you You’re not the type of girl to ju your boss these days More like revenge’
‘You don’t knohat you’re talking about, Eric For one thing, I’ine for one moment that he’s in love with me’
Eric frowned ‘Then…what is it between you two?’
‘That’s my business, don’t you think?’
‘You are sleeping with hih’