Bonus Chapter 34 Epilogue

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Rose woke the next morning felling more refreshed than ever, for once she was relaxed. Bother her boys were sleeping soundly when she woke so she decided to head downstairs and look in on what the guys had found thus far.

Being so early no one was awake so she would look through the papers in her own way at her own pace. The guys had made some progress eliminating a bunch of women as the one. But there was still a few left to go over.

She made a pile of those who had similar writing to that on the package and would then delve into it deeper.

One by one the pile got smaller and smaller until there was none left. A few she had to hack into their home computers to find signed documents to compare the paper too, and she still came up with nothing.

Sighing in annoyance, Rose places the paper down and leans back in her chair, just as her father walks into the room. He was surprised to see her up, she wasn't even dressed.

"What are you doing, it's six in the morning" he says glancing at the clock on the wall.

Rose shrugs, I woke up, the boys were still sleeping so I thought I would come down and see what they had found" she says.

"And?" he wonders, of all his guys, Rose was best at spotting the patterns, but by the look of annoyance on her face, she still hadn't found a connection.

"Nothing" she grinds out through gritted teeth. "I've been over all her past interactions, I even tracked down high school friends and classmates she never saw again after that, but nothing matches". This really was a tougher task than she first thought.

"We'll figure it out" he says hoping some encouragement wouldn't dispel her from the task.

"I know, but this has gone on too long, if they aren't in Lara's past or present then who are they?" she wonders.

Scott pours himself a cup of coffee as an idea springs to mind, "Where's the file on Richard?" she asks.

Her father looks at her with a tilted head "In the office, why?" he wonders.

Rose jumps up from her seat "What if it isn't Lara's past we should be looking into. What if Richard is the true target?" she says aloud speedily walking to the office to get the folder.

He stands there processing what his daughter just said, even though they had already been through his past too. As she walks back in Rose places the file on the table and begins to skim through everything they had collected on Richard Mathews.

"What are you saying?" Scott wonders, thinking he had connected the dots correctly, but he wanted to be sure.

"What if Lara was in the way, and they needed to get rid of her to get to Richard, he has the bigger company, but anyone that knows Richard Mathews knows he would drop his company in a heartbeat if he needed too. So what if something went wrong for someone, and the only way to make him pay..." she says.

As if a light went off in Scott's head "Is to kill Lara" he finishes. Putting down his mug, Scott joins his daughter at the table, and they dive further into the history of Richard Mathews.

"What about this" Scott says handing over a piece of paper, it was an insurance policy. Taken out upon the death of an employee, Rose looked over the document before pulling over her laptop and searching Richard Mathews employee database for a Harold Walters.

"Here" she says, "It says Harold Walters was a brilliant employee, been with the company for thirty years, almost as long as the company existed, he died almost two years ago on the job".

"That was when the threat letters started to come in" Scott mutter as he listened to his daughter.

"He left behind a wife and three daughters. Richard paid a hefty insurance, also paid for the funeral and hospital expenses, added onto that he gave ten thousand each to the girls for college". Rose was confused.

"If one of these was the one sending the treats, why are they doing it. It says it was ruled an accident. The company wasn't at fault and Richard went beyond to make sure the family was looked after" Scott wondered; the same thought Rose had.

"I'm not sure, but the wife signed the agreement, and it looks nothing like the handwriting on the fragment we have. I need to hack into the daughter's accounts to see if I can find anything" Rose utters before pulling the laptop towards her and delving into the database.

One by one the guys trailed down, each letting out some noise as they went to get breakfast, but Rose paid no attention to them.

Ace came down last, freshly dressed and an awakened baby in his arms which Scott claimed immediately letting Ace get some breakfast, first stopping to kiss his girl on the head.

"What is she doing?" Leighton asked, she was so focused, not even paying attention to anyone in the room.

"She found a lead" was all Scott said and every set of ears perked up in interest.

"Where?" Dominic wondered, Michael and I combed through all of Lara's past and found nothing new.

"That's because we were looking through the wrong persons past" Scott says before gently wiggling his finger that Sammy had gripped onto.

"We looked through Richard's past too, there wasn't anything" Michel says confused, as were the rest of them.

"Found it" Rose cries out in excitement making everyone jump. Then her face goes from excitement to shocked, followed by annoyed and anger.

"What?" Leighton asks baffled.

It was only then that Rose realised everyone was awake and stood about around her, "Oh, your all here" she says astounded by the fact she never noticed.

"Yeah, what did you find?" Tommy says impatient to know.

Rose rolls her eyes, "So I went back over Lara's past and found nothing, even back to high school with those she hasn't spoken with since. Nothing, so I thought what about Richard" she says.

"But we already covered him, and the company" Jack says, and Rose nods her head "Yeah, but we didn't look into the aspect that Richard's family is more important to him that the business, so long as he has his family he would be okay with losing the company. So, I delved into the employees again, only this time I looked at those who had died recently. The only death associated to the company is a man named Harold Walters, the insurance and outside investigation claimed it an accident, and Richard paid for everything, right down to giving each of his three daughters ten grand to help pay for college. I have the widows signature on some forms from the company and she isn't a match but one of the daughter's is" she smiles proud that she finally made headway in a long overdue case.

The guys all lean in to the computer to take a look at the picture Rose pulls up and their eyes go wide.

"Isn't that the girl who threw that hot drink on you at the carnival and almost burned Sammy?" Drew says, all the guys realise who he meant, and you could feel the atmosphere in the room change.

"Meet Victoria Walters, our bomber" she says with a sigh. Even with everything that girl had done to her she never thought she would be capable of something like this, but she did have the ability to manipulate men into doing her dirty work and get what she wanted from them.

Printing out all her findings, Rose moves around all the guys who were all trying to get to grips with what Rose had just told them, even Ace was frozen and disturbed by it all.

After collecting everything she found, she walked up to Ace, "Would you mind phoning Officer Jackson and let him know we have evidence to who the bomber is" she says softly.

Ace didn't even look down at her, he was still processing. "Ace" she calls once again giving him a little nudge this time.

He snaps out of his state and looks at Rose "Huh, what did you say?" never hearing her in the first place making her chuckle.

Reaching into his pocket she pulls out his phone "Never mind, I'll do it" she tells him before standing on the tips of her toes and kisses him on the cheek.

Walking away she dials Officer Jackson and fills him in on everything she had found. It wasn't long after the conversation he along with a detective came around to the house and Rose went through everything she had found before handing them the file. "I hope this helps" she says.

The detective stands up and holds out his hand for her to shake "Have you ever thought about joining the force, we could do with fresh new minds like yours" he says hoping she would consider it.

Rose chuckles as she shakes the mans hand, "As enticing as it was to dress up a cop when I was a kid, there's too much red tape for my liking, I think the private sector is where I belong" she grins making the detective nod his head in agreement.

"Well, if you ever change your mind, come find me, I'll put in a good word. In the meantime, I need to head back to the station and fill my captain in on this new information. As soon as I get the go ahead for arresting Miss Walters, I'll call" he says heading to the door with Officer Jackson in tow.

"Are you sure its enough?" Ace asks, his mind was already racing a mile a minute with what he would do if the cops couldn't arrest her, and he was sure his father would also join in on this one.

"With what you have collected from the evidence we released to you, and the company being well credited, I have no doubt that she will be in custody before the morning ends" he says and heads down to his cruiser.

Officer Jackson nods their way before also getting into the car. They had finally cracked it all. But none of them released their breathe until they knew she was going to prison.

It was only a few hours later when Ace got the phone call from Officer Jackson. Everyone including Tyler was in the living room, he arrived shortly after the detective and Officer Jackson left and they filled him in. to say he was anger was an understatement. The kid wanted to go find her himself and put an end to all the waiting.

Of course, everyone held him back, Drew practically sat on him until he calmed down, then the waiting game continued.

Everyone remained silent as Ace spoke on the phone. When he hung up everyone was on the edge of their seats in anticipation "They arrested Victoria" he says, a grin lighting up his face.

Everyone cheered happy at the outcome "She even ratted on her accomplices for planting the bomb and are also being arrested. Moms safe". He breathes out in relief.

Rose jumps up from her seat, passing all the guys as they celebrate and landed on Ace's lap, "Are you okay?" she wonders, she knew he wanted to get his hands on her himself, but this truly was the better option for all.

Ace nods, "Moms safe and no one is at risk anymore" he beams out, the happiest he has felt in a long while, because now all the women in his life were safe from harm.

Leaning over Rose kisses him on the lips, there was no sexual desire behind it, just a loving kiss mixed with relief and happiness.


The End

Thank you all for being with me throughout all of this. I decided to end this here and hope you all enjoy this final chapter that was long over due, but I'm getting back into the swing of writing again and hope to bring you some new books and finish off another old book that has been waiting for a finale.

love you all and thanks for the support. XXXX


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