ed to be concr

investigator, a di

gut feeling and the Affin

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week, he

s dam

nts showing

had been funneled into Chloe' s accounts, then spent on luxury ha

e-star hotels, airline ticke

o turned out to be a community theatre actress, complete with

xtensive, metic

s and emails between Chloe and various Sterling

ht and isolate Olivia after Olivia, the true Sterli

ia as unstable, aggres

nment, Chloe who had engineered her own "estrangeme

had defrauded from me was over

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uge wa

storm gathering, still

desperate sort of sweetness, hinti

d, but I really believe we can work

t it during one of these calls (I ha

not even

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s pat

arly under threat, and her attempts to manip

e, distant, offe

was time for

led C

need to talk. Seriously. About us, about our future. Can

hen her voice, fille

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ears turning in her head,

age wa

other call, to

terling agree

to understand the full sc

ontation