Should he trust his words? This man had shown nothing but kindness to her over the years, but a person could change in an instant too. And those phone calls from Russia were shady. Gordon knew something, and he was going to find out whether this old man liked it or not.
After dinner, they moved outside to enjoy the view of the ocean. Vanessa’s sisters brought coffee for the four of them and asked their father for permission not to join them. Whatever they had to talk about didn’t interest the teenagers. Hell, he didn’t even know if Marie should be joining them. It would be better if it were just him and Gordon talking—man to man.
“This is a nice property,” he commented about the couple’s home. When Gordon and Valya divorced, he married Marie in the Philippines, making her the legal wife.
