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I glanced down; having forgotten I was holding them. “This is everything I was able to pull from her father’s lawyer about her before I got shut down.”

“Well, don’t leave me in the dark, give me the quick and dirty recap.”

“There is an NDA signed by Keys. She signed with a different name though. Sarah Cassidy. There was also an emancipation proclamation and a no contact order that quite frankly doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on.”

“She has a no contact order against someone?”

I shook my head. “That was the weird thing. Her name is involved with it, looks as though she requested the damn thing. It’s to keep her father away from this woman.” I pointed to the name that had been attached to the file.

“Who is that?”

“From what I can tell, it’s her mother.”

“So, she’s protecting her mother from her father, but she didn’t stay with either parent?”

“Looks that way.”

“What about her sister? Same thing for her?”

I shook my head. “That’s the weird thing. They have different mothers, and the sister changed her name only a short time ago, just before she enrolled in the university here.”

“If they have different mothers, is it possible they didn’t grow up together?”

“It’s definite they didn’t since the world doesn’t seem to know Keys is the Senator’s daughter. She’s also the oldest and was born out of wedlock, so we can assume she was a secret baby he had stashed away.”

“Shit.” Sweet took a few steps back toward the door before he turned to me again. “Let’s keep this under wraps for now. I’m going to have a chat with Ghost about this and see how he wants to push forward. If Jamie knows about the connections, he’s not going to be happy with her. If she doesn’t, he’s not going to be happy with Keys. I know how you feel about her, brother but you might want to prepare yourself for the possible fallout on this one.”

“You think I don’t already know that?” Sweet was out the door without answering, and I was left to my own misery. She had to know who her sister was. Even if Keys was here, in hiding, she had to know that her sister had come to town. You can’t grow up knowing someone and be duped by something as inconsequential as a name change.

I thought back to the first time I met Aubrey in the diner. Even then, I remembered thinking that she bore a striking resemblance to Keys. It was part of what had attracted me to her. The possibility that I was the only person who noticed didn’t hold much water with me. Then again, Sweet seemed completely taken by surprise. Of course, his head was so far up Jamie’s ass that I didn’t think he saw much else these days.

I burned another laptop while trying to dig deeper into the secret life of Sarah “Keys” Cassidy. Unfortunately, the woman was fucking amazing and thwarted my every attempt to dig any further.

A few hours later, Sweet returned with Angel Girl on his heels. “What in the hell is this all about? If it’s business, then my girls should be here too!” The last was a demand, and an angry one at that. Not that I blamed Angel Girl for putting her foot down about something like that, especially after the previous disaster of a power play that Sweet put on that almost cost him his girl and us our alliance with the S.H.E. MC.

“I promise, my reason for having just you here will make sense in a moment,” Sweet told her as he gently maneuvered her closer to me.

I had created a dossier on Keys while Sweet had been away. I made a chronological order of it starting with Keys’ birth and moving right up to the point where she changed her name, signed an NDA, and had an order of protection put in place for her mom. Then I skipped over the rest, because there likely wasn’t anything there that Angel Girl didn’t already know about her friend at that point. I picked it back up where Aubrey changed her name and rolled into town to attend the university here.

Once I handed it to her, Angel Girl opened it up and started looking through everything. She didn’t bother to stop and try to cry about how this was a violation of her clubmate’s privacy. Instead, she soaked up the information and then glanced back up at me. “Her sister?” She asked.

I nodded.

“And like a dumbass, you fucked them both!” It was a statement, not a question.

“Not that it’s your business, but I never slept with Aubrey.”

“Sure, you didn’t. You know that she’ll never get past that once she finds out.”

“You’re so sure that she doesn’t know her sister’s been in town all this time?”

“I think the best thing we can all do is have you make up with Keys. She’ll never date you again, but you can become friends. Gain her trust and see what you can find out.” My jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe Angel Girl was even suggesting that. It seemed to go against every loyalty code those girls had with one another.

“If you think things are doomed between Keys and me, what do you think will happen when she finds out that was your plan?”

Angel Girl shrugged. “Keys told me, in vague terms, about her family back when we first met. She never gave them names or told me what they did for a living. I knew her father was rich and powerful though because she was able to get all that money from him. She didn’t grow up with her siblings, from what she told us before. She never even met them but knew who they were because they were in the public eye.”

“That doesn’t mean they didn’t get in touch later on.” Sweet told her.

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