CHAPTER ELEVEN
Carrie climbed in the car, feeling conflicted about this new lead as they headed for Franco Bruno’s home.
She simply couldn’t believe that Stella Fall had been right all along. Patrick Coleridge was not the icon of respectability everyone thought him to be. Carrie had been sure that Fall was biased against him because of her own prejudice. Now Patrick had proved to be unethical, a man who’d sneakily used a contract clause to force his partner out of a growing business, compensating him with nothing more than a meager payout.
How had Fall known? Was it just luck that she’d taken that stance, Carrie wondered for a hopeful moment. She had a feeling it wasn’t luck, and now felt ashamed as she remembered how vehemently she’d opposed Fall, believing that her attitude might send
