Chapter 49: Trust No One

"But I'm on the list too..." Kathleen replied nervously but Aaron quickly shook his head and smiled at her. He held both her hands and cupped them in his hands. He looked her deeply in the eyes as if trying to pierce into her soul. He could feel her innocence through her mellow eyes.

"I trusted you, honey. That's why I chose you to do this for me," he said gently.

"Why can't you just ask Ryan to do this for you?" She wondered. Ryan had been there by his side since he first established the company. Considering that fact, Ryan should be the person Aaron trusted the most inside the company.

"I had been having a lot of arguments with Ryan lately. And most of them were rather personal than business matters."

"You're saying that you don't trust Ryan anymore?" She was bewildered.

"No... That's not it. I just thought that the one who did this to me was someone close to me. I just wanted to be careful with everyone. Except for you of course. You'd been on m