The Cost of Silence and the Fall of Hayes Development
He didn’t deny it.
I turned away from him and walked out of the suite.
The marble hallway was cold.
I could hear the distant roar of Miami traffic twelve floors below.
I followed the corridor around to the bank of elevators.
Victor was standing there, pressing the down button repeatedly.
His thumb was white from the pressure.
“Victor,” I said.
He didn’t turn around.
“The house in Key Biscayne,” I said.
“Is that under Brooke’s name too?”
He let out a short, harsh laugh.
“No,” he said, still looking at the elevator doors.
“That’s ours, Claire. For what it’s worth.”
“It’s worth nothing,” I said.
The elevator dinged and the doors slid open.
He stepped inside.
I didn’t follow him.
I watched the brass indicator numbers count down to the lobby.
My phone vibrated in my purse.
I pulled it out, expecting a call from my lawyer.
Instead, it was an alert from the bank.
A joint secondary account we used for household expenses had just been locked due to suspicious activity.
I walked to the floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the hall.