Chapter 23

I asked him why he was helping me. He stood at the door with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, thought for two seconds, and said, "You took a landmine for me once. I remember." In truth, I hadn't taken any landmine for him. I just happened to uncover the fake accounts his finance manager had buried for three years while looking through the books, helping him secure his trump card in an acquisition war. To him, it was a landmine. To me, it just meant working a month of overtime. But Rhys was...