A deal with the devil

Chapter 96

Once Janine settled into the car, the turned to Shirley, her curiosity barely contained. “Why are you dragging me to the Gray residence? What happened to Nancy?

Shirley explained the call between Jessica and Nancy the previous night.

Janine had reacted just as Shirley did from the night before. “Oh no, Nancy must’ve gotten the worst of it. Why didn’t you stop her?”

“I tried,” Shirley sighed. “It’s a long story.”

By the time Shirley finishedrecounting everything, they were already hallway there.

Janine listened attentively, as if engrossed in a gripping drama. She didn’t even have the chance to vent about Evan, as she leaned closes, and asked curiously, “Did Benjamin get into a fight with Samuel when he barged in to take you?”

Shirley could only shake her head, “I don’t know. I was unconscious Tenjamin hasn’t told me anything either.”

What? How could you not know something that important?”

began to run wild. “I bet

replied simply

quickly. My sixth sense tells me that Samuel’s going to regret this His eyes don’t lie. The way he looked at you was full of love, it’s nothing like how he looked at anyone else. I still don’t

thoughts drifting to Samuel’s phone call from the night before. He emotions were a tangled mess. “Janine, I don’t want to talk about him anymore.” Janine studied Shirley carefully. “Have you really

face. “What’s done is done Dwelling on the past only makes things harder. I just want to focus on the

forward”

to dwell on what couldn’t be changed.

overjoyed, calling to tell her about her upcoming wedding to Samuel and

treating you

and Janine were actually dont relatives, but they hardly knew each other so

for a moment before

his disdain for women, the fact that he hadn’t made her life unbearable was

dropped the tople as the car arrived at the

she hadn’t expected to see Samuell standing by the gates.