Chapter 8 - VICTORIA'S FATHER

Charles Langford requested a meeting the next morning.

Not Damian.

Not Victoria.

Charles.

Lucian chose the location.

A private room at Vale Meridian with attorneys present.

Charles entered looking amused.

“Ava Knox.”

She disliked him immediately.

He was silver-haired and calm in the way powerful men are when they expect fear.

“You look very different from Damian’s description.”

“What did he say?”

“That you were emotional.”

Ava smiled. “Men say that when women remember details.”

Charles sat.

“I understand you found documents that belong to Sterling North.”

“They were on my computer.”

“Placed there without your knowledge.”

“So you admit Damian placed them there?”

Charles paused.

Ava continued.

“Careful. Emotional women remember details.”

His eyes cooled.

He offered a settlement.

Five hundred thousand dollars.

Ava said no.

One million.

No.

Two million.

Lucian did not speak.

Charles finally asked, “What do you want?”

“My name cleared.”

“That can be arranged.”

“Every false tax filing corrected.”

“Done.”

“Every document Damian forged disclosed.”

Charles leaned back.

“That is unreasonable.”

“Then we’re done.”

He looked at Lucian.

“You put her up to this?”

Lucian answered, “I’ve barely managed to stop her from putting you through the wall.”

Ava glared at him.

Charles smiled for the first time.

Then he said, “Your grandmother’s bracelet was beautiful.”

Ava went still.

“What?”

“The vintage gold one.”

She had sold it three years earlier to cover Damian’s tuition. “How do you know about it?”

Charles realized his mistake.

Too late.

Ava leaned forward.

“Who bought it?”

Silence.

“Who bought my bracelet?”

Charles looked toward his attorney.

Damian had claimed a pawn dealer bought it for eighteen hundred dollars.

Naomi began typing.

Within minutes she found the resale record.

The bracelet had been purchased by an intermediary.

Then transferred to Langford Holdings.

Ava stared at Charles.

“Why?”

He did not answer.

Lucian’s face hardened.

Then the conference-room door opened.

Victoria walked in.

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And whispered, “Because my father gave it to me.”