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“Walter would have wiped that one first,” Missy said

“So, what?” Ta that Dad didn’t do it?”

“We know he’s been duplicitous,” Liaain”

Missy’s catch of breath told its own story “You didn’t know that,” Liam said

“No I didn’t He toldbut had soon seen how destructive it could be and stopped”

So why had he started up again? Unless he knew that he was in financial trouble Unless he had been trying to get back funds that had been spent, funds he needed to pay those wronged investors without other ar tapped to pay the debt

“If he didn’t wipe away evidence of Mom’s and my account, then he didn’t do it” Tamara latched on to the piece of evidence that was uppermost in Gabrielle’s mind as well

“I’m not ready to believe that,” Liam told his sister And Gabrielle wondered if he ever would be ready to trust his father again

Walter Connelly ht not be fraudulent in his business deals, but the s, just the same

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

BY LATE THAT afternoon Lia his father had never been born—except that would have meant neither he nor Ta time with his little sister was pheno in

Whether Missy had been totally duped by Walter and had not been aware of the part she’d played in his father’s adultery or she’d known that she was sleeping with Liam’s mother’s husband was unclear to him

He didn’t want any of it to matter

But it did

“Wait awith him in the leather backseat of Missy’s newish four-door sedan on the way to the pier where the four of the a boat to have dinner on the ocean