"Mr. Ryan, for now, I can't do anything. Thea hasn't gone anywhere alone. She always has someone with her. And I'm afraid to contact her through her phone. She might report me to Arthur. I think she heard our conversation."
Bradley Thomas is on the phone with the missing Ryan Blackwood. When the call comes in, Bradley feels half relieved and half terrified.
He owes a lot of money to Ryan. That was how he was sent to Montrose Corporation in the first place, planted there as Blackwood's spy.
His second mission was to make Thea Montrose fall in love with him. It was all Ryan's idea. At first, Bradley had refused. Arthur Montrose was not someone he wanted to cross.
But Bradley has a weakness. A gambling addiction.
When he received money from Ryan, he didn't use it to pay off his existing debts. Instead, he gambled it away, convincing himself that if he could just double it, everything would disappear. All his problems. All his fear.
