Clover stared at the image on Matty’s phone screen. They were sitting on her bed and it had taken Clover several minutes to get her calm enough to speak.

‘The bitch called you? After she sold her story?’

Matty shook her head frantically, trying to make herself clear, but her thoughts and words were a jumble. ‘No, not me. This is a photo I took. Julian was in the shower and his phone rang. Normally I’d ignore it but it had been such an insane night . . . people kept ringing him, wanting a comment. I thought I should at least look to see who it was, in case it was important.’

Clover put her hands up to stop her. ‘Wait – so this is a photo of the lock screen on Julian’s phone?’

‘Yes.’

‘. . . But why would Amy be ringing him?’

Matty’s eyes widened again. ‘That’s what I’ve been asking myself! What possible reason does she have for contacting him? How does she even have his number? I’ve been going over it all day, trying to think of an innocent explanation . . . But I can’t!’

Clover didn’t reply. That was why Matty had been so distracted all day? She got up from the bed, needing to move to think. ‘Okay, pause. Take a breath. Let’s think it through. There’ll be a perfectly logical explanation for why she’s ringing Julian . . . hours after her story broke . . .’ she murmured. ‘Perhaps she was warning him that the story was coming out? She knew he could tell Kit for her.’

‘But in that case, she would have rung Ari, surely? He’s Kit’s manager. Or me! I was the one who’d made contact with her.’

‘Yeah,’ Clover agreed. ‘Either one of those would have made more sense . . . But it’s not completely outside the realm of possibility she called his sponsor instead.’ Clover bit her lip. ‘She might even know him. If her husband’s that rich, they might move in the same social circles?’

‘Clo, no . . .’

Clover turned at the tone of Matty’s voice.

‘I’ve been over every scenario. It’s my fault. I know it is.’

‘Your fault?’

‘. . . I told Julian about Amy. The first night you were in Geneva, he took me out for dinner. I was really psyched; I hadn’t seen him for a few days and I’d just made contact with Amy; even though it wasn’t a good call, I felt certain we could swing her. I was convinced we’d finally got the missing piece to the story . . . I was excited about it and so I told him.’

‘That you’d found Kit’s ex-fiancée?’