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Eleanor went quiet for a second.
“Oh.”
“Well? Do you miss me?” I pressed.
“Of course,” she said.
“But this isn’t like you, saying all these sweet things. Are you sure you’re alright? The doctor did warn me the anaesthesia might mess with your head.”
“Can’t I call my wife to tell her I miss her?”
“Okay…” She still sounded uncertain.
I moved on.
“I’ll take you out for dinner tonight. Where would you like to go?”
“Are you sure you should be eating solid food? It’s only been two days since your surgery.”I’d forgotten about that.
“I can’t, but you can.”
“So you’ll just watch me eat? That’s weird. And you shouldn’t even be leaving the hospital.
Besides, I’ve still got tons to do here at the studio. I really don’t fancy spending two hours at a restaurant.”
“Then I’ll have Kit deliver something to you. What would you like?”
“Anything’s fine, really. You decide.”After hanging up, I made another call.
“Seb! What a surprise!” Genevieve answered cheerfully.
“Genevieve.” My voice was cold and utterly toneless.
She sensed it immediately.
“What’s wrong, Seb?”
“I know I owe you a life, Genevieve. But don’t overstep. Eleanor is my line. If you cross it again, I won’t hold back.” My tone was frigid.
I ended the call without waiting for a response.
After that, I couldn’t focus on work. I called Harry back in.
“Mr Laurent.”
“I need you to prepare something for me,” I told him, and explained what I wanted.
“Right away,” Harry said, and went off to get it done.
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Eleanor’s eyes widened when she stepped out of the studio.
She jogged up to the car.
“Sebastian, what are you doing here?”
“Picking you up,” I said.
“Get in.”
“You didn’t have to come. I’ve got Kit.” She climbed into the back seat.
“The doctors said you should be on bed rest.”
“I’m fine.”
“Are you, really?” She eyed my suit sceptically, as if she could see right through the fabric to the wound underneath.
“Doesn’t it still hurt?”
“I took painkillers.” Truth was, I’d had worse.
“Still, you shouldn’t have gone to the trouble.” She looked genuinely concerned.
“I need to take you somewhere.”
“Where are we going?”I told her the address.
The confused frown on her face told me it meant nothing to her.
“It’s an old warehouse LGH owns,” I explained.
“You’ll have to be clearer than that.” She shook her head.
“My brain’s turned to mush after getting yelled at all day.”
“I found the person who sabotaged your studio. We’re going to see her now.”
“You did?” She sat up straighter.
“Who is it?”
“You’ll see soon enough.”When the car pulled up outside the warehouse, Eleanor was the first one out, impatient.
I took her hand as we went into the building, with Kit leading the way.
Harry was waiting inside a room that used to be an office, standing behind a chair.
“You?!” Eleanor stopped short when she saw who was sitting there.
Catherine glared up at her with pure hatred in her eyes. She opened her mouth to speak, but when she saw me, her pupils shrank with fear.
Eleanor strode right up to her.
“You’re the one who hacked my studio database and messed with all the orders?”Catherine gave a weak nod.
“Why the hell would you do that? And since when do you know how to hack?”Catherine shot a glance at me, then sneered at Eleanor.
“I hired a hacker.”
“And the gunman? The ones who chased me in the Camry? That was you too?”Another nod.
“Why?”Catherine’s smile was cruel.
“Do you really have to ask? I hate you. You ruined my life.”I stood behind Eleanor, watching Catherine closely. So far, she was sticking to the script.
Catherine grew agitated and strained against the rope binding her wrists to the chair.
“If it weren’t for you, Daniel wouldn’t have divorced me. If not for you, Mum would still be my mum and she’d never have found out I wasn’t her birth daughter. If not for you, Dad would still be alive. You ruined my life, you ruined everything! Why should you get to live a happy life while I’m left in the gutter?”Eleanor clenched her fists, but her voice stayed calm.
“I know you’ve always hated me. I just never thought you had it in you to pull something like this.”Catherine let out a shrill laugh.
“I just wish I’d done it sooner. And I wish that gunman had aimed better.”She glanced at me again, her look a mix of fear and resentment.
Eleanor turned around and reached for my hand.
“Let’s go.”I looked at Harry, who gave a single nod.
She didn’t say another word until we were outside the warehouse.
“What are you going to do with her?”
“What would you like me to do?”She just looked tired.
“Turn her over to the police.”I nodded.
I spent the night tossing and turning.
Catherine was behind everything?
Somehow, part of me refused to believe it.
It wasn’t that I still had any sisterly feelings for her. It was just that… it didn’t seem like her.
She was catty and vengeful, and she wasn’t above resorting to low tricks to get at me.
But her tactics usually involved spreading rumours, backstabbing, or sabotaging my relationships.
I’d have more readily believed if she’d tried to seduce Sebastian than hired a gunman to kill me.
Where would she even go to find people like that?
But Sebastian’s network of contacts was far more powerful than mine, and I had no reason to doubt what his men had dug up.
Besides, Catherine had confessed, hadn’t she?
Shaking those thoughts away, I dragged myself out of bed when the alarm rang.
Against the doctors” wishes and mine, Sebastian had checked out of the hospital and come home.
I insisted we take separate bedrooms. I’m a restless sleeper; I toss and turn, and I was terrified I’d accidentally kick him in the stomach and make his injury worse.
Waking up alone felt odd. I’d gotten used to sharing a bed with him.
Back in the room I’d first stayed in when I moved into his house, I sat for a while, still groggy.
When my phone rang, I groped for it and answered without looking.
“Hello?”
“Eleanor, it’s me. Please don’t hang up. I have something important to tell you.” Daniel sounded rushed, anxious that I’d cut him off the second I heard his voice.
“What is it?” I said, my tone cold.