‘You need to talk to a lawyer,’ I tell Harper. ‘See if there’s any way you can claw some of this money back. It’s only been, what, a fortnight since you gave him the money from the sale of your house? It may just be sitting frozen in an account somewhere—’

‘I’m going to kill him,’ she cries suddenly.

I snap on the child locks from my side of the car. ‘No, you’re not,’ I say.

‘Unlock the door, Millie!’

‘Harper, there are a dozen journalists out there,’ I say calmly. ‘If you storm up to his house in front of them, it’ll be about five minutes before the whole world knows the financial mess you’re in. Is that the smartest business decision to make right now?’

She hesitates, her hand on the door handle.

‘You can spin this,’ I add. ‘Find a way to make it work for you. But you need to think about it with a cool head, Harper, not rush in half-cocked. Figure out a way to control the narrative.’

I’m not sure why I’m trying to save her from herself. The girl’s caused me nothing but trouble: she’s got the hots for my husband, tried to blackmail me over Peter, and has made a thorough nuisance of herself turning up at my office at all hours. And yet I feel oddly protective of her. If I didn’t know better, I’d almost say we were friends.

Harper abruptly lets go of the door handle and slumps back in her seat. ‘I want that bastard to pay,’ she mutters.

‘Trust me,’ I say, ‘you don’t need to worry about that.’

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harper and kyle launch the copper bottom pledge campaign!

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This has been, like, the worst week of my life and I’m so, so devastated for everyone caught up in the Copper Beech scandal with us, especially all of you in our Kyper Nation, because it’s just, like, such a betrayal, isn’t it? But I think it really helps when we all come together and share our pain, and I’m really trying to hold love in my heart right now because when someone does something this, like, super-mean, you know it must come from a place of hurt. But when I think of the damage Felix Porter has done – I mean, there’s old people out there who’ve saved all their lives and they’ve lost everything.

And if it wasn’t for our amazing sponsors I don’t know what we’d do, but we’re so lucky because they’ve been so supportive and they’ve done just such an incredible thing and agreed to underwrite our losses so we can fight back and stand up for all of you.