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ible, I went to work for Harry’s tech start-up instead, and I heard nothing htly as she took another drink “Until last Monday, when I found this in my desk drawer”

She reached into the envelope she’d placed in front of her and took out an old Polaroid photo, which she slid across the table to Harvard He didn’t look at it but focused instead on the wo hi her story

His tea sob, and Ryan slapped a hand down hard onto the table, the sound echoing through the room

Rachel didn’t even seeht,” she said, “I found a second photo tucked into the pocket of ” Another photo joined the first

Now Elle was sobbing hard and had given up trying to hide it

“For fuck’s sake, Rachel,” Ryan exploded, agony lacing his voice far o after these bastards years ago?”

She didn’t answer him, but Harvard suspected Ryan hadn’t expected her to

“I had intended to ignore all of this,” Rachel said to Harvard “Mainly because it occurred tothis must work at TayFor And one would assume they wouldn’t want to ruin the company that eation, and if this and the thefts were to be made public, it would be the end of TayFor A pharood as the trust their customers have in them”

It sounded like the ive after a crisis, and Harvard couldn’t keep quiet any longer Gentling his voice, he asked, “Why tell us about it, then?”

“Because this latest warning giveselse happens I don’t knohat that will be”

“No” Harvard leaned forward, closing the distance between them “Why tell us about it now?”

She blinked several tiot it under control “I e onto my bed,” was all she said

And having the photos of her assault in the place where she felt uard, had been the last straw Damn it to hell, he couldn’t take any more of this distance she’d put between them

“Ryan,” he said, in a tone that couldn’t beother than an order, “take Elle for a walk”

As a fornized a commander’s instruction when he heard one, and he didn’t hesitate He wrapped an ar woet you some air,” he said softly