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.

the last

room. Thorne glanced up first and greeted her, "You made

offered a small

she answered, she caught sight of

she first learned that Granger's feelings had shifted and he'd developed an interest in Charlene, Vesta had been shocked-then utterly baffled. She just couldn't see what was so special about Charlene,

for drugging Thorne and

But now...

the scene she'd witnessed 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

finally understood what Granger saw

also dawned on her that Granger might have known Charlene was Kenton's student all along. He probably knew about

this, he'd never breathed a

herself. How many times had she

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