Devastating Secret™

Earning Trust

"Holy Crap!" Cho stated stunned.

"Now all those bad-ass moves of hers makes sense," Alex remarked.

"So, then what?" Suzanne asks.

"Then he sends her to kill me," Noah stated.

"Since you're not dead, why didn't she?" Alex asks.

"She fell in love," Suzanne muttered with a smile.

Noah smiled back as he admitted, "Yeah. She had Cooper set us up."

"Wait, our Cooper?" Cho asks.

"He was the mole, wasn't he?" Alex declared.

Noah nodded and remarked bitterly, "It was the reason he was killed."

"Eva killed him, didn't she?" Suzanne stated, and Noah nodded, "She was so upset after he died. She kept saying how she wished she could undo it. She never told me what it was. I thought she cheated on you at first, but she loved you too much to do that. In the beginning, when she met you, she also said she was no good for you. Now everything makes sense, why she constantly thought she was worthless."

"I made things worse for blaming her for Cooper's death when I found out," Noah told her. "We almost got a divorce. I didn't even know how many times she had saved my life before she got shot. She's the reason I'm alive. She's been protecting me since we met."

"So, Welker sends her to kill you, instead she marries you, that must piss Daddy dearest off," Frazier remarked.

"It did," Noah admitted. "Especially since he made grand plans for her."

"What was he going to do with her?" Cho asks.

"Marry her to Antonio Mancini." Noah growled.

"Why?" Suzanna asks.

"Why do you think?" Noah growled, "His family connections that's why! And he ...he did things...to her and he was a murderous freak and still, Welker wanted her to marry him. He was possessive and thought she was his. ... "

"How could he think that if you two were dating?" Cho asked.

"He didn't know about me," Noah replied, "but he was going to find out."

"How?" Alex asked.

"Let's just say...I took something he definitely would've missed," Noah said with a blush.

Collective eyebrows went up then a chorus of, "Ohh!"

"Anyway, he had a thing where he'd check on her. It was mandatory she showed up and if she wasn't..."

"That's one hell of a risk she took!" Cho said.

"It was a risk I took, unknowingly." Noah said, "If a guy even looked too hard he had his eyeballs removed. Image what would've been my fate."

"So that's why Antonio had to die." Alex said then added, "She set off a shit storm doing that."

"Technically she didn't do it. Winters did."

"How is she mixed up with Winters?" Moss asked.

"She isn't really. She just knew of him and hired him for the warehouse job."

"She set Gambol up!" Alex asked stunned.

"She wanted you to be a hero," Suzanne mused, "She was the one fixing your cases."

"Yeah," Noah admitted, "As for Winter's, he found out about her and me and made a few threats. So, she killed two birds with one stone."

"She pitted Antonio against Winters," Cho deduced.