“Then why didn’t you do anything about it? Why did you let this happen?” I asked, perplexed. He shouldn’t have signed the contract and got into his car if he knew Arthur was betraying him. “And what do you mean by the whole plan? How do you know Arthur went to meet Ivanov?”

Endless questions swirled around my head, but I had no answers.

“You remember when we had a board meeting about someone leaking information about our company and working with Antonio?”

I nodded.

“I had a hunch it was someone from inside, someone very close to us, just as you said in the meeting. And after the drug incident, I was sure of it. I knew Liza couldn’t do that alone. To know that the CCTV camera outside of the Valencian mansion wasn’t working was possible for only the people from inside the house. Or someone who regularly visited.” His hand ran up and down my leg, making me realize that I was in one of his T-shirts, not in my morning clothes.

He must’ve changed my clothes.

“The people who worked there were our old and loyal staff. I knew they wouldn’t betray us, but still, I had a close observation of their activities. And they came out clean. Tess wouldn’t do that to Caleb, either. So that left Arthur.” He met my gaze. “I didn’t want to doubt him, as he had a huge favor on me by handling my company in my absence years ago. I had no idea of his running illegal businesses in the UK until I got a call from the cops.”

I frowned. “Cops?”

He nodded. “Yes. After the drug incident, I had Antonio investigated discreetly. And the man I hired was a police officer. He was involved in the case. According to his report, the drugs that were found in Caleb’s car were from a drug dealer whose shark client was Antonio. He got them from that man. It was a very expensive kind of drug that only this drug dealer supplied to the states through Antonio. It was Antonio’s foolishness to use the same drugs to frame Caleb. And once looked closely into it, the drug dealer was connected to a company based in the UK. And guess who was the owner of the company?”

With my eyes wide, I whispered, “Arthur.”