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Finding she’d lost her appetite, Rachel pushed the pastry away “Are you sure? I didn’t even know him back then I barely know him now”

She sounded calh disconnected from the conversation But so up Was he one of the men who’d attacked her? Had he taken the photos? Had he set all of this up?

“Why?” she said “I don’t understand the why”

Elle opened her laptop and tapped at the keyboard before turning it toward the rest of the woer version of Terrance King He had his arazed into each other’s eyes like lovers would “That’s Angelina Smith; she was seventeen when this was taken Terrance was in his forties and still working with the police He was also married”

“What’s that got to do with me? I was a few years older than her when I was attacked, and I honestly don’t recognize the girl”

“It’s not who she is that’s important,” Elle said “It’s what she represents”

Harvard slid a hand over Rachel’s shoulder to her nape, but instead of brushing hi “Black you, probably used this affair to blackmail Terrance”

“Exactly” Elle hit so up several photos and a written report “I used our connections to private investigators in London and found a firm as more than happy to help once they knew this was personal I had to proh Nobody trusts a PI who shares information”

Harvard nodded, his hand still warm and solid on Rachel’s neck “Understood What did they tell you?”

“That round the same time Terrance decided to quit the force and apply for the security position at TayFor, soate theunusual, youIt’s routine for TayFor to check out their staff, especially security staff But this didn’t coh official channels In fact, TayFor’s na was done in secret They didn’t have a client naned by a laas hired just for that purpose”

“So, so up dirt on Terrance” Rachel felt ill even saying his na an affair with a schoolgirl to black?”

“That about sums it up,” Elle said

“Which brings us back to our belief that someone inside TayFor is behind all this,” Ryan said “Otherwise, hoould they know Terrance had applied for a position with them and that he’d be in a place where he could help the blackmailer?”

Harry nodded “They ot the job at your fa and the attempted cover-up on the server happened just a week or so after he started there”

Rachel looked up at Harvard “Do you think the person who hired hianized my attack?”