Gran had not been at all pleased to hear that Jake had stood me up or that he was on his way back to St. Louis. Luckily I had never told her that his ex-wife was his supervisor and they’d be together nearly twenty-four/seven while working cases. As it was, it had taken me a half hour to calm down Gran after telling her that Jake wasn’t showing up for our date. So when I dropped the second bomb—that instead of going out with the man she hoped I’d marry I was now attending a dance with a guy she hated—her ballistic reaction was fairly predictable. Birdie didn’t buy Noah’s claim that after breaking up with me, he had explained and apologized a few days later. She especially didn’t accept his justification for ending our relationship in the first place. Which, according to Noah, was because if he didn’t stop dating me, his mother, a member of the bank’s board of directors, had threatened to have Gran charged with aiding and abetting my father’s embezzlement scheme. After a lot of fast-talking, I had almost convinced Birdie that exploiting Noah for his connections was the best revenge of all.
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