Chapter 14 - Charles’s Contracts
The audit Eleanor began before meeting Jason revealed why Charles panicked.
He had steered Whitmore Hotels renovation contracts toward vendors connected to a private investment fund he secretly owned.
Over four years, approximately $18 million in contracts carried inflated pricing.
Not all money went to Charles.
But he benefited.
Eleanor had been three weeks away from receiving the final audit report when Jason entered her life.
Grace looked at the timeline.
“He distracted you.”
Eleanor felt humiliated again.
Then stopped herself.
“No.”
“What?”
“Charles distracted me.”
Jason was the instrument.
That distinction mattered.
Charles knew exactly what Eleanor lacked.
Companionship.
Privacy.
Someone uninterested in business.
He used personal knowledge gathered across a lifetime.
That betrayal cut deeper than Jason’s.
Jason studied Eleanor for months.
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Charles had known her since childhood.
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