Aunt Elaine believed in preparation.
She had not become one of the most effective corporate investigators on the East Coast by accident. She had achieved her reputation through meticulous planning, exhaustive research, and an unwavering commitment to asking questions that people did not want to answer. Before her arrival at the penthouse, she had compiled a dossier on Lucas Grey that ran to thirty-one pages, including his educational records, his employment history, his credit score, his tax filings from the past seven years, and seventeen photographs of his ears in various states of coloration that Sophie had provided without Lucas's knowledge.
But the dossier, she had decided, was not enough. The dossier told her what Lucas Grey had done. It did not tell her who he was. For that, she needed the formal interview.
