I know.“Funny that you know her, and she knows Cowl, and you work with Cowl, too. Another coincidence.”
“No coincidence about it. I was the one who introduced Michelle to Brad. This was over in Italy.”
“Really? You had no interest yourself?”
“We grew up together. And I thought it would be good for Michelle.”
Rich boy and a girl who stays in student hostels grew up together? Curious.
“Well, have a fun time in there.”
Devine watched him walk inside and then he left, got on his bike, and sped off.
He couldn’t believe that he’d threatened the head of one of the biggest investment firms in the world. If Cowl got the cops involved? If he said Devine had tried to blackmail him? The guy could probably make it stick, and Devine didn’t have enough money to hire the legal firepower to fight back, just like Cowl had intimated.
So basically I’m SOL. And what else is new?
And if he got swept out to sea there was no way in hell Emerson Campbell was throwing him a rope. Unlike being in the Army, now it was sink or swim all by his lonesome.