Chapter 139 Rounding Off (Two)

• Once we got to the park, he reminded me about the money that he had given me to pay my brother’s hospital bills all those years ago and all the money that he had given me since then. Where did I think all that money had come from? I did not understand what he was getting at, at first, but then he boldly told me about how he had been laundering money from Ryan’s company over the years. I don’t know how he did it, but he had framed me so well that if he was going down, I was sure as hell going to go down too as an accomplice. It was still the same money that he had saved up for the company we were to open together – I had since backed out of that venture though. To say I was shocked was an understatement. The fact that I knew that Ryan wasn’t in love with me in the sense of the word but had married me because I was pregnant, and now had miscarried the baby, did not help one bit. Still, I wasn’t going to be bullied for something I knew nothing about.
• That was when Peter produced a series of pictures from his briefcase. They were all nudes of me, mostly ones that were taken when I was unaware, but there were also a few that I had been aware of, that he had made me take one time when my grandma was really sick and I needed money urgently to treat her.”
• “Christ! What an asshole. Why didn’t you just tell Ryan, Becca?” Dan asked, feeling really sorry for her. She looked very tired and haggard, and the pain in her eyes was almost too much for him to bear.