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.

had walked in on Miles and Sharon, and she refused to marry him, her reputation

of reconciliation between the Kalen family and Sharon. And given Sharon’s nature, there was no way she

Rick understood he’d been used

no time for theorizing–Carter and Thomas had no

gone. If she’d been drugged, the situation looked grim. Yet the

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

overreacting. The evidence proved Thomas right. Rick couldn’t afford distractions–Johanna’s scandalous photos were exploding across the hall, and if Sharon were harmed, Rick would have no

his teeth, glare locked on the unconscious Miles; he wanted, fiercely, to shoot the bastard where

thinking fast, said, “Call Julliard. I suspect

darkened.

But if he doesn’t pick up,

trembled despite his composed face;