Chapter 6 - DAMIAN COMES TO BROOKLYN

Damian pounded on Ava’s door the next afternoon.

She opened it with the chain still attached.

“What?”

“So this is real?”

“What?”

“You and Vale.”

“I came to protect you.”

“From the man investigating the company you used my name to bill?”

Damian went still.

There it was.

Ava watched the lie arrive in his eyes.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Knox Consulting.”

Color drained from his face.

“That was tax planning.”

“For money I never received?”

“I was building our future.”

“Our future ended at 3:17 a.m.”

Damian rubbed his jaw.

“This is more complicated than Vale is telling you.”

“Then explain it.”

He looked toward the apartment. “You kept the old laptop?”

The question came too fast.

“What’s on it?”

“Nothing.”

“What’s on it, Damian?”

His face hardened.

“You always were dramatic when you got scared.”

“No. I got scared when I trusted you.”

He shoved the door, tightening the chain. Security moved and Damian stepped back.

Ava said, “Leave.”

He pointed at her.

“You think Vale cares about you? Men like him collect useful people.”

“Maybe.”

She looked at him.

“But you collected useful women.”

His expression twisted.

“I loved you.”

“Then you have a strange definition of theft.”

Damian walked away.

One of Lucian’s security men waited until he was downstairs.

Then he said, “Ms. Knox, was he asking about a laptop?”

Ava nodded.

She closed the door.

In the bedroom closet was an old silver computer she had not opened since Damian moved out.

She charged the dead laptop. One folder appeared on the desktop: STERLING.

Ava had never seen it before.

She opened it.

Inside were hundreds of files.

At the top was a spreadsheet titled:

LANGFORD - OFF-BOOK PAYMENTS.

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And in the notes column beside Damian’s name was a sentence that made Ava’s skin go cold.

IF AVA FINDS THIS, SHE BECOMES A LIABILITY.