Chapter 75 Eyes In The Murk

• Outside, the city hummed at a steady pitch that was nearly soothing, but inside Mr. Callum's study, the pressure crepitated through the air. The dim gleam of his desk beacon cast light upon the mound of papers before him, but his eyes were for the man seated across the desk from him- Mr. Hayes, the private investigator he'd hired. He looked like a man who had seen too much, his face hardened from times of digging up secrets people wanted to keep buried.
• Callum exhaled sprucely, his fritters beating against the polished wood of his desk." Tell me everything," he said, voice edged with controlled fury.
• Hayes leaned forward, placing a thick manila folder between them." Your daughter's hubby, Alexander Sterling, has n't lived at their hearthstone for over three months. They do not go out in public together. No divorce papers filed, no legal separation records. But they are not together."