eyes read. What is it?
Charlie hesitated.
Miss Sinclair asked me last month to look into Maria’s background.
Full background check.
I didn’t think much of it at the time.
Some fiances do that kind of thing. But I found something odd while I was pulling the file.
Maria Santos isn’t just your housekeeper, sir.
What are you talking about? Charlie swallowed hard. Her father was Manuel Santos.
He worked construction for your father’s company almost 20 years ago.
He was the foreman on the site where your dad had that fall, the one that almost killed him back before the company went public.
Daniel’s breath cut.
He remembered that story vaguely, his father telling it at family dinners. The man who pulled him out from under a collapsed section of scaffolding and saved his life, refusing any reward, disappearing back into his ordinary life afterward.
Manuel Santos saved your
