Chapter 99

There was no way Helen Reese could have guessed that Madeleine and Beckett were actually living together. Not in a million years would she imagine Beckett had already filled Madeleine in on all his personal routines and quirks. The things Helen mentioned to Madeleine? Yeah, even Carl wasn't aware of some of them. There was a mix of truth and bluff hidden in there. Worst-case scenario, if something did go wrong, Madeleine might get chewed out or fired by Beckett, but no one would pin the blame on Helen. The coffee part? That was true. Beckett always kicked off his mornings with a straight-up black coffee. As for keeping sugar on hand, that was a little tradition passed down from former assistants — just not peanut candy. The guy's allergic to peanuts, big time. And Beckett hated any kind of body odor on his assistants — total clean freak — but he had even less tolerance for those overly perfumed 'signature scent' types. Madeleine jotted everything down meticulously and nodded with a sin