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was
pretty proud of it when Cathy gave it to me, so I must have bragged
whenever I got a compliment. I did get a lot of compliments on
it—from women, of course.”
    “ Of course,” Mrs. Davidson
said with a little laugh.
    “ I think you should hire a
private detective,” Mrs. Davidson said. “Let him or her do the
thinking for you.”
    Aaron had thought about that in
the days following Cathy’s departure. He would do it now.
    The next day, Aaron contacted a
private detective his firm had used in the past. He told him his
story.
    “ I need you to give me the name
of every woman you’ve been with in the last ten years,” Randy
Frazer said. “Any woman who would know about your Johnson.”
    “ I’ll email it to you,”
Aaron said, cringing.
    “ And anyone who knew about the
tie,” he said. “Even if you think it’s not important.”
    “ Okay,” Aaron said.
    “ Do you know where she got the
tie?” Randy asked.
    “ It was some specialty English
store but I can’t remember the name right now.”
    “ Let me know if you do remember
it,” Randy said.
    Two hours later, Aaron emailed
Randy a list of women he had been with over the past ten years. He
was embarrassed, not because of Randy Frazer, but for himself, that
the list had fifteen names on it, along with any information about
each one he could remember.
    “ What about the tie?” Randy
emailed back. “And send me a scan of it. I might be able to pass it
around and get some idea where it came from.”
    An hour after that, Aaron emailed
Randy a list of people he thought had seen the tie. That included
clients, friends, and staff people. He had no idea what Randy was
going to do with that information.
    “ Let me know if you remember
any other people,” Randy wrote back. “I’ll start working on
this right away.”
    The holidays were so difficult
that Aaron preferred not to think about them. Lonely nights,
desperate thoughts. New Year’s Eve had been the worst because he
fully remembered that had been the night he told Cathy he loved her.
He had never said that to a woman in his entire life. Even the ones
he had dated for several months. He had never found anyone he loved
before. Aaron was searching for his true love, someone who would
stand by him like his parents stood together through thick and thin.
Cathy was that woman.
    Randy Frazer called him once a
week to report his findings, which were meager. He had found out that
seven of the women Aaron had dated were married, four of them with
children and one of them pregnant. Only two still lived in the
Atlanta area.
    “ Just because they’re married
doesn’t mean they don’t have it in for you,” Randy said. “I’d
say it makes it less likely, though. I’ll keep doing background
checks on them and hunt down the rest of the list.”

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    When Aaron returned to the office
after the New Year’s, he had made his decision. He called Marsha
into his office.
    “ I’ve decided to leave
Peachtree Financial,” he told her.
    Marsha’s lip trembled. “But I
thought you were going out on your own and that you were taking me
with you,” she said.
    Aaron had never said that to
Marsha, though he probably would have taken her with him. She was the
best secretary he’d ever had. Hell, she was more than a secretary.
She anticipated his needs before he even thought of them himself. She
was his right hand.
    “ I’m sorry, Marsha,” he
said gently. He had not been kind to her since his break-up, he
supposed because she was the closest one to him and he took it out on
her in a way.
    “ I don’t want to work in this
business anymore,” he said. “I’m sure the company will keep you
on, or I’ll give you a stellar reference if you want to move on to
another firm.”
    “ I don’t know,” Marsha said
in a small voice. She turned and left his office. He walked down to
the president’s office to tell him the news. Matt Cranshaw kept him
in his office for an hour trying to talk