"I never had a chance to talk to you about that," Anna realized, the words slipping out much too late. "How did you manage to arrange all of that? What exactly happened back then?"
"Well," William began, settling back with his hands resting behind him for support.
"When you asked me for that one last gift, one of my assistants went to the Hyde residence. He bribed a maid to retrieve the leather folder from the storage room. However, when he returned to my office, he handed me two similar folders. The maid didn't know which one I wanted, so she brought out both. Naturally, my man took both of them."
"Then you must have seen... I understand now," Anna murmured, lowering her gaze. The urge to dig the nail of her left thumb into the skin of her right one resurfaced, but she forced herself to resist.
