Side Chick Era... Over

Loving DAD 1096

Miles lay there half–naked, shorts clinging to his hips. The room wasn’t the chaotic mess one might expect–only a desk lamp lay shattered on the floor. Nearby, a small camcorder still sat on a tripod.

Sharon was not in the room.

Rick exhaled, but it was no real relief. He wasn’t as oblivious as Silas; the scene made him suspect exactly what Thomas had warned: this was no accident.

Carter’s eyes swept the floor and snagged on the camera. He crossed the room in a few quick strides and pressed play.

Once the secretary had set the device and left, Miles’s mask came off. Seeing the footage, everyone’s understanding crystallized in an ugly instant.

Rick’s face drained of color. Miles had been brazen enough to lay such a trap–how dare he plot like this against them. No matter how much the Kalen family might disdain Sharon, they would never sink to such disgraceful depths.

in on Miles and Sharon, and she refused to marry him, her reputation would be

to salvage the situation. If Miles succeeded, it would splinter any chance of reconciliation between the Kalen family and Sharon. And given Sharon’s

understood he’d been used as a

was no time for theorizing–Carter and Thomas had no patience

was gone. If she’d been drugged, the situation looked grim. Yet the video showed her leaving

the conversation. “Get the corridor surveillance pulled–search every

thought Thomas was overreacting. The evidence proved Thomas right. Rick couldn’t afford distractions–Johanna’s scandalous photos were exploding across the hall, and

ground his teeth, glare locked on the unconscious Miles; he wanted, fiercely, to shoot the bastard where he lay. How dare he scheme

thinking fast, said, “Call Julliard. I suspect he’s

darkened.

percent. But if he doesn’t pick up,

anyway. His fingers trembled despite his composed face;