Kathy had just hung up the phone after a tense conversation with Mrs. Carter. The topic was Skye—young, clever, and now, apparently, threatening Mrs. Carter. It seemed Skye had somehow stumbled upon one of Mrs. Carter’s best-kept secrets, and she wasn’t shy about using it as leverage. But Kathy knew the whole story; she had seen everything firsthand.
Mrs. Carter had been taking money from her husband’s company for years ever since she got married. Handling all the family finances while Mr. Carter was away on business trips gave her unrestricted access. Kathy, always observant, had witnessed the embezzlement with her own eyes. The secrecy and the risk seemed to thrill Mrs. Carter, but Kathy knew this wasn’t the only secret hiding behind the elegant facade of the Carter estate. Life in the
