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young, and still thinks of me as her sister’s boyfriend.”
    “Why did you hire her then, especially as an assistant? I mean, that’s working pretty closely with you.” I rubbed his arm and picked up my cup.
    “Yes, but she was already Rachel’s intern when she died, and it just seemed like the right thing to do. She wanted it, and I was in no shape to refuse her. I guess that appears kind of short sighted on my part, but it is what it is.”
    “I’m not so sure…” I mused.
    “Not so sure about what?”
    “That she only thinks of you as her sister’s boyfriend. We had quite a conversation at the office yesterday. I think Ashley is a little more than protective.”
    Cain’s eyes got wide. “Oh no. Not Ashley, I mean she’s just a kid.”
    “She’s anything but a kid, Cain. Be careful with her. It sounds like she’s had enough heartache for a while. I’ve watched the way she looks at you. The way she touched you, yesterday. There’s more to it.” I suddenly felt empathy for the young woman; I knew what it was like to miss someone you loved. “I guess I should tell you my secret too, since you’ve been so honest with me. You’ve probably noticed that my father and I don’t get along so well.”
    Cain laughed in agreement.
    “Well there’s a reason for that. Dad has always been sort of, well…”
    “A hardass?” Cain guessed.
    I laughed with him. “Yes, that’s a good way of putting it. But it got worse when I was in college. I was at Townsend. I was in law school there, and was dating a guy… Actually, we were pretty close to engaged. Christopher. We both applied for internships at Dunning, Durst and Chandler and both got jobs.”
    Cain laughed again, but tried not to make light of the situation. “Your father m ade you apply to work for him?”
    I took a deep breath. “To say the least… While we were there, Christopher stole client information; we had some pretty high-profile clients, back then, too. One was an heiress that had gotten into some trouble while here in the States.  There were others that were big name CEOs of companies, prominent people. DDC represented them and their families on cases. He basically leaked the dirty laundry of quite a few those individuals to some of the tabloids and got paid for doing it.”
    “Wow, okay… that’s rough, but how could your father blame you for what Christopher did?”
    “There’s more to it. That was just the initial undoing of everything that Christopher was involved in. He used that information to blackmail and extort money from those people. He was money hungry. I hadn’t seen that side of him.”
    “I’m sorry, Jennifer. I know it must have been tough, the person you loved hiding things from you…being someone else entirely.”
    “Dad didn’t like Christopher. He blames him for me not finishing law school. For turning to psychology and profiling. I’m Dad’s disappointment.”
    “Well, if it means anything, I don’t think he thinks that. I know I certainly don’t.” Cain leaned over and kissed me.
    When I left my apartment that morning, I left with a smile of satisfaction.

Chapter Ten
    I arrived at the office early; my houseguest had woken me up before dawn and I was eager to jump into things once he had left. I had grabbed the files from my apartment floor and decided to sort through them at the office, but then I got distracted.
    A quick search on the net pulled up exactly what I was looking for. I sat and stared at the screen. A mangled car was plastered on the front page of the archived news site. Rachel’s. I scanned the story, pulling out Cain’s name, and read the details. It was horrific. No wonder Cain had such a difficult time with this. It’s bad losing someone, worse if it’s everywhere you look. I couldn’t imagine the pain he had gone through.
    Dad arrived at the office about thirty minutes after I did, the first time I had ever beaten him there. I closed the news site and headed over to his office