“It’s the answer I have.”
I shake my head and walk back to the desk because standing still in front of her is making it harder to keep my temper under control.
She follows me with her eyes but stays where she is. “He came because he knew whoever put the money out wasn’t going to let it go,” she says. “He wanted to know whether it had already beenset in motion. He wanted to know who was moving around the wedding and whether the offer had reached someone else.”
“And he told you this when?”
“This morning.”
“Before the shooting?”
“Yes.”
That makes me look at her again. “And you said nothing.”
Her voice gets quieter. “I didn’t know if it was real yet.”
I stare at her in disbelief. “You thought there was a chance someone was trying to have me killed, and you decided to wait until you had more certainty.”
“I was trying to get more information before I brought you something that could have been nothing.”
“It was never nothing. Don’t you realize what happened yesterday?”
She says nothing to that because she can’t.
I rub a hand over my face and try to keep my thoughts in order. Sienna in the hospital. Her warning me about Anna.
“Did he give you a name?”
“No.”
“Did he give you anything useful?”
“He said it wasn’t personal.”
That gets a bitter laugh out of me. “That’s meant to reassure me?”
“No,” she says. “I think it was meant to tell me the person behind it had money and a reason beyond anger.”
Yuri finally speaks. “Or it was meant to make a fool out of you, making you believe he was looking out for you.”
Anna turns to him. “I’m not naive.”
“No,” Yuri says. “You’re compromised.”
Anna turns to me. “Say something, brother.”
I look at Anna. “What do you want me to say? You’re not being completely honest here, not to me or yourself. Sienna told me you arrived earlier than you claimed.”
Her face changes.
“She also said you were involved with the champagne order.”
Yuri turns his head toward her. Anna doesn’t deny it.
My voice drops. “So?”
Anna’s mouth tightens. “So now you believe her over me?”
