The thought had just crossed Moran's mind to gossip about it a little more, but with Jasmine and the butler both present, she decided it wasn't the time. She snapped her mouth shut.

Thorne and Granger both had pressing matters to attend to. After checking in on Irma, Granger and Moran didn't linger long in the hospital room.

Still, it had been quite a while since any of them had shared a meal together.

As they were leaving, Moran suggested, "If you can all carve out some time, how about we get together for dinner tonight?"

Thorne and Granger both agreed in unison, "Sounds good."

Thorne spent the whole day at the hospital, buried in work. That evening, Claudia came to relieve him, so he headed to the restaurant Moran had picked out.

Jasmine had returned to the Ross family home at lunchtime, so Thorne was on his own that evening.

When he arrived at the restaurant, Granger and Moran were already there.

was the

opened the door to their private dining room. Thorne

offered a

answered, she caught sight of Granger sitting

Granger's feelings had shifted and he'd developed an interest in Charlene, Vesta had been shocked-then utterly baffled. She just couldn't

Granger used to despise Charlene for drugging Thorne and forcing that disastrous marriage. Why the sudden change of

But now...

in the parking lot a few days ago, when she'd seen Charlene and Stewart together the founders of PrimeStar. Then there was CUAP, the research project Vesta had admired for so long, and it turned out Charlene haded the team. She remembered the way Charlene had called Malvina "mentor's wife"-the kind of affectionate title only a close student would use. PrimeStar was now making money hand over fist, and Charlene was right at the heart of it. All the little things she'd noticed over the past months that tied Charlene to PrimeStar suddenly clicked

Vesta finally understood what Granger saw in

known Charlene was Kenton's

of this, he'd never breathed

back to how hard she'd tried to impress him, desperate to be noticed by Kenton herself. How many times had she mentioned her admiration for the creators of CUAP, all the while not knowing the

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