“Why didn’t she kill you already?”
Eddy snorted at my words, but it was an honest question.
I mean, why had she spent that long with Sawyer after she’d found such a good thing marrying and killing off her husbands?
“Because with me she had a better thing going,” he said. “With me, I’d just created a tech company that would net millions.”
“So she stayed with you so she could get a steady income?” I guessed.
“Exactly,” he agreed. “She’s been funneling millions out of my company for years now. Right now, she’s up to about five hundred and ninety-five million. All of it tax-free.”
“Holy shit,” I breathed.
“She gives half of her income to those guys and keeps half of it herself in an offshore bank account,” Boone said. “But we’re not the only job that she’s running. She’s also sucking dry all of the charities that she’s a chairman of. She funnels off the top a little bit at a time.”
“She’s up to about seven hundred million off of all of her charities,” Denver added. “She also has her fingers in a lot of pies. A lot of pies that are financially sound and won’t notice that she’s stealing from them.”
“Whoa,” I breathed.
“A couple of years ago, when one of the guys that she originally hooked up with wanted more than she wanted to give, she hired a hit man and had him killed,” Denver continued. “The one guy left is really good with computers. A black hat hacker that saw no issues in Gail’s methods.”
“So what now?” I finally asked. “How does all of this work?”
And, just sayin’, I still thought my loss was greater than all of that.
I could hate Gail for what she’d done to Sawyer and Boone in general. But I was forever going to be gutted for what she’d done to me.
She’d stolen something precious. Something completely and utterly innocent.
I would never, ever forgive her for that.
But it was nice to see that Boone had finally cottoned on to what was going on with his own family.
That didn’t fix the past, but it definitely helped toward the future.
Maybe I could trust him with our daughter.
Maybe he wouldn’t let that crazy bitch anywhere near her.
“We also think that Felicia isn’t the baby that she was pregnant with.”
That bomb went off, silent but deadly.
Sawyer’s words felt like gunshots in the otherwise silent room.
My brows were high as I breathed, “What?”
“We think that she kidnapped Felicia when she was an infant.” Denver moved toward the middle of the room and took a seat on Sawyer’s desk.
Sawyer moved the cup of pencils before he could knock them over.
“How does that even happen?” Eddy spoke her first words since they started.
“At first, I thought that Felicia was just another child that was Gail’s but not mine.” Sawyer sighed. “But we found out that Gail visits a girl in Bear Pass once a week.”
“And she looks just like Dad,” Boone added. “Same honey-colored eyes. Same copper-colored hair. Same skin tone. Same nose.”
I opened my mouth and closed it, unsure what to say.
