FAZER LOGINChapter 94 Zoe’s POV “You tried to delete a flagged record from your own terminal, Wyatt, twelve minutes after Scarlett left your office, and that is why you will stop making decisions without me,” I said, locking my front door behind him on Monday evening. He dropped his bag on the floor and sat on the arm of the sofa with both hands pushed into his hair. “I panicked.” “You left your own terminal in the audit trail.” “Then she will go to my father.” “She will go to the board, which is worse, and she will do it within two weeks, because she is not a woman who leaves a column unbalanced.” I put a glass of water in his hand and sat beside him. “So we cannot wait for the right moment, Wyatt, because when she finishes, your father will be the one who decides what happens to you.” “What do you want me to do?” “I want him to be the one who is explaining himself.” He looked up at me. “Think about what his position rests on,” I said. “The board gives him everything be
Chapter 103Scarlett’s POV“Close the door, Daniel, and tell me again who asked for the access logs, because I would like to hear the name from you and not from the system,” I said, without looking up from the two screens in front of me.He closed it softly and stood with his hands clasped.“Nobody asked for them, Miss Scarlett, I requested them through the information technology office as part of the routine quarterly audit, exactly as you instructed.”“And who saw the request?”“Only the technician, and he does not know what the audit is for.”“Good.”It was Monday morning, a quarter past nine, and I had been at my desk since half past six.On Friday evening I had counted twenty three payments across three vendors, Harlow Creative Partners and two others whose names I had not yet been able to trace to a real address.Together they came to just over four hundred and twelve thousand, and none of them exceeded the limit at which my office would have been asked to sign.Over the weekend
Chapter 102 Zoe’s POV “Wyatt, it is barely seven in the morning, so tell me what has happened, because you look as though you have not slept at all,” I said, holding my front door open with one hand and my dressing gown closed with the other. He walked past me without answering. He stopped in the middle of my living room with his jacket crooked on his shoulders and his keys still in his fist, and I closed the door and watched him stand there looking at the curtains as though he had forgotten what he came for. “Sit down.” “I cannot.” “Then tell me standing.” He turned around, and his eyes were red at the rims and very bright, and he spoke in a low, even voice that frightened me more than shouting would have. “It is my father.” “What is?” “The man she has been sleeping with, Zoe, it is Mateo.” I did not say anything. I stood with my hand still on the back of the sofa and let the words arrive, and they arrived slowly, one at a time, each one heavier than the last, and I fel
Chapter 101 Wyatt’s POV “Answer me, Layla, because I heard him say it through the door, and I sat on that window seat for four hours waiting for you to come out,” I said, and my voice shook on the last word, though I had meant it to stay flat. She did not move. Her shoes lay on the carpet between us where she had dropped them, and her hand had gone to the front of her nightgown and closed on the cloth. “Wyatt, please lower your voice.” “Why, so that the cook will not hear what you have been doing in my mother’s house?” “Please.” “How long?” She drew a breath and let it out slowly. “I will not answer that in a corridor.” “Then I will tell you what I think.” I stepped closer, and she backed against the wall. “I think that you knew exactly who he was from the first day, and that you chose him because I was the one person he could hurt. You came into this house with your chin raised and your new dress, and you looked at my father and saw the one way to make me pay fo
Chapter 100 Wyatt’s POV “I do not know what I believe,” I said, and I closed my eyes. “Then go to sleep, Wyatt, and we will look at the records on Monday.” Zoe said. “I will try.” I ended the call and put the phone face down on the sheet beside me. I did not sleep. I lay there with my eyes open, listening to the house, and I went through everything that I had seen in the kitchen in the order that I had seen it. My father’s hair had been wet at the temples and darker than it should have been, and his collar had been turned slightly under on one side, and when he took the beer out of the refrigerator for me his hand had not been quite steady on the bottle. He had also been very calm, and that was the part that had bothered me the most, because I knew my father well enough to know that he was only ever that calm when he was working something out. *He asked me why I came home early, and he answered every question that I asked him before I had finished asking it.* Th
Chapter 99 Layla’s POV “My clothes are in the library, Mateo, my jeans are on your bedroom floor, and my door is at the other end of the corridor past the top of the stairs, so tell me how I am supposed to get there before he comes up,” I whispered, standing in the middle of his room with the sheet wrapped around me and my heart pounding so hard that I could feel it in my throat. He was already pulling on his trousers. He did it quickly and without any wasted movement, the way he did everything when there was a problem in front of him, and he picked my jeans and my jumper and my underwear off the floor in one sweep and pushed them into my arms. “Put these on, and stay behind this door until you hear me on the stairs.” “What are you going to do?” “I am going to go down and meet him in the hall, and I am going to take him into the kitchen and ask him why he has come home two days early.” He fastened his belt and dragged a clean shirt out of the wardrobe. “The kitche
Chapter 2Layla’s POVI walked out of Wyatt’s building with my head down and my arms wrapped tight around my middle, trying to hold the shattered pieces of myself together.The tears I had been swallowing back finally broke free the second the heavy glass lobby door clicked shut behind me. They ra
Chapter 1Layla’s POV“You know what, Layla? I’m fucking ashamed of you now. Look at yourself. Those chubby cheeks, that face staring back at me every single day. It disgusts me. I’m done pretending this still works.”The words hit me before I could even brace myself. Wyatt stood there in the middl
Chapter 7Layla’s POV“What!!!!!”“Mom… I got the job! After so many months!” I squealed, shoving the phone screen right in front of her face.My hands were shaking so badly I almost dropped it. The email glowed on the display, bold letters screaming the exact news I’d been praying for.Congratula
Chapter 6 Layla’s POV Next morning “Hmm..” I moaned as the morning sun hit my face, smacking my lips sleepily. I opened my eyes slowly, then closed them again. But something about my surroundings felt completely unfamiliar, and my eyes snapped wide open. “What the fuck!” I muttered, qui







