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"Yes, but there’s still one loose end: your credit card stateave a copy of your credit card stateency Hoill you explain that?"

Daniel rubbed the back of his neck He hadn’t thought about that, too ecstatic that Holly had found a woe of Sabrina "Crap!"

"Yes I’ve been thinking about it ever since I found this photo But I can’t figure out hoe can discredit the credit card statement If we don’t, then the reporter will think you hired an escort who looked like Sabrina And I don’t think she’ll buy the whole story as long as there’s a shred of evidence that you did hire an escort If only that copy of the credit card stateiven Audrey access to his confidential financial records! For that indiscretion Frances had deserved being fired And she’d never get a decent reference out of hiured it out

"What?" Holly stared at hiot a copy of it If we can prove that the copy is a fake and that Audrey added in the charge to an escort agency to make it look like I hired Sabrina as an escort, then her whole story falls apart"

"True But how are you gonna do that? If I e your credit card Besides, if you suddenly produce a different copy, they’ll think your copy is doctored, not hers"

For the first tirinned "I’onna be the one who co to do that"

"Your assistant? I thought you fired her"

"And that’s exactly why she’ll do it: she needs a reference fro else"

Holly chuckled "You’re positively evil" She winked at hionna ave to the reporter?"

"I’inal contains the credit card charge"

Daniel put a hand on Holly’s shoulder "Did I ever tell you the story of hohen back in college, Wade would have nearly flunked out of statistics?"

Holly looked at him like he’d lost his raphic arts and Photoshop more than make up for it In fact, it’s a little hobby of his"

Holly’s jaw dropped "Are you telling e your credit card stateirl I’ll talk to Zach, Wade, and Frances" He looked at his watch "We’re not gonna make the deadline for tomorrow’s edition of the New York Tiht and Wade can get the credit card state, the article will be retracted the day after"

And then he’d get Sabrina back

24

Everything had happened like clockwork: Holly had convinced Sabrina’s Doppelganger to come to New York and tell Claire Heart that she was the real escort, not Sabrina The money Daniel had proanize a private jet froer in Denver and flown her to New York LaGuardia airport Then a limousine hired by Zach’s company had chauffeured her to the newspaper’s offices

Wade had worked all afternoon and night on reproducing the credit card statement which Daniel had been able to access online In the early hours of the , Wade had presented Daniel with two sheets of paper that looked so real Daniel couldn’t tell that they were forged Instead of hiring a courier, Wade had taken it upon himself to drive the document to Frances’ apartment in Brooklyn and delivered it into her hands

In the meantime, Daniel had called Harvey, the door and found out that Sabrina had indeed returned to New York He’d asked hi Under a pretext, Harvey had gone up to the apart boxes But even Daniel knew that she wouldn’t be able to hire movers in a day or two

Nevertheless, he was antsy by the ti without Sabrina rolled around He was pacing on the back porch, staring at the tent that was ready for the wedding, when his cell phone rang