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“How’s my favourite sister-in-law?”
“Fine. She’s working so I’m home alone.”
“Eating your body weight in red liquorice laces I bet.”
“If you tell her, I’ll hack all your passwords and change them.”
“Fine, I won’t, but can you do me a favour?”
“What?”
“Can you email me the background check we did on Astrid?”
“Sure. Why?”
“No reason, I just want to check something in her file.”
“It should be in your inbox now. Is she working out okay?”
“Yes, she’s perfect.”
“Perfect hey? That doesn’t sound like a very Jack thing to say. Is there a story there?”
“I’m hanging up now, Will. Give my love to Aubrey.”
He clicked his phone off and went to his email and clicked on the link Will had sent. He wondered if there were any more clues to what Astrid was hiding from him, and he had no doubt she was hiding something. A better man would wait for her to tell him, but he wasn’t a better man; he was a cautious one.
