Lover by Design
“Here. Chiltern hospice gala, four years ago. Here. The opera thing. Here, the children’s charity where they auction other people’s holiday homes. Same three men, same four years, always the same events, never once photographed talking to each other.”
“That’s not a connection. That’s a social calendar.”
“It’s the same social calendar, Michael. Rich strangers don’t accidentally attend the identical eleven parties a year for four years.” She stopped on one image and tapped three women, arm in arm, laughing at something off-camera. “There’s your link. Not the men. The wives.”
I looked. My database had those three logged as spouses. Dependents. Rounding error.
“They’re friends,” Celeste said. “C