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Bullshit.
“She's good,” Myrna adds.
“According to?”
“Everyone.”
I don't like that answer.
Not because she's good. Because if Layla Hawthorne is the one investigating Granddad, good makes her considerably more dangerous.
“Scandals?”
“None that I see.”
“Complaints?”
“Nothing significant.”
“Ethics violations?”
“No.”
Interesting.
“Bias?”
Myrna exhales.
“She has opinions.”
“Political affiliations?”
Now Myrna lowers her phone.
“Are you seriously asking me for a complete background check on this woman?”
The way she says woman makes my temper flare.
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because she may be investigating my grandfather.”
“We don't know that.”
“Exactly.”
Myrna looks across the ballroom, her gaze sweeping over Layla before returning to me.
“She’s nobody, Mitchell.”
Wrong.
The thought is immediate.
Instinctive.
