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After Stephen and Andrea left, Rebecca closed the door. “Why did you tell me to accept his offer?” she asked Amelia, her voice laced with confusion. “Stephen can’t be trusted. He’s a snake who will do anything to get what he wants.”

“I know,” Amelia said calmly. She could see that Stephen was dangerously cunning.

“Then why would you-” Rebecca started.

“Because it was just a transaction,” Amelia cut in.

Rebecca replayed the conversation in her head. ‘He helps us get out of Jelasburg, and I promise not to kill Jeffrey?‘ she thought. ‘I’ll be lucky if Jeffrey doesn’t kill me. Since when am I the one holding his life in my

hands?‘

Amelia saw the confusion on her daughter’s face. “You’re getting stuck on the terms,” she advised. “Ignore what Stephen said and focus on the real players. Think about his relationship with Jeffrey.”

The gears in Rebecca’s mind turned, and the real plan clicked into place almost instantly. “You think Stephen wants to use my escape to distract Jeffrey,” she said, “so he’ll have an opening to seize control of the Hanson Group?”

Amelia merely grunted in dismissal.

The tension in Rebecca’s shoulders eased. Fine. ‘As long as I’m a diversion and not the target, I don’t care,‘ she thought. ‘Let them tear each other apart. It has nothing to do with me.

*****

That night, Jeffrey showed up at the hospital. After checking on Amelia, he turned to Rebecca and asked about Stephen. Rebecca just said Stephen dropped by with a friend to visit her mom, and didn’t mention anything else.

Jeffrey was suspicious. “He just came to visit your mother? That’s it?”

“Yeah,” Rebecca said, her face a blank wall.

“Are you coming home to the manor tonight?” Jeffrey asked, grabbing Rebecca’s hand right in front of Amelia, making sure she saw.

“No,” Rebecca said, instantly pulling her hand free. She didn’t even hesitate with her refusal. “Mom’s got rehab early in the morning. It doesn’t make sense to go all the way back and forth.”

“Samuel’s coming home tonight,” Jeffrey said.

Rebecca frowned. “What? I thought he wasn’t coming back until tomorrow afternoon.”

“I told him his grandmother was awake, and he insisted I go pick him up tonight,” Jeffrey said, glancing at his watch. “He should be arriving at the manor in the next hour or so.”

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She needed to talk to Samuel about leaving

knowing,‘ she thought. ‘If he says

be nothing but a voice on the phone and a

screen.’

the hospital, Rebecca laid down her first condition. “I’m sleeping in Samuel’s

doing,

the manor, but an hour later, there

worry tightened in Rebecca’s stomach. “You said he’d be home by now,” she said, turning to Jeffrey.

cell. He knew better than

Mr. Hanson,” came Samuel’s voice. He didn’t call Jeffrey “Dad”

Rebecca

“You liar! You promised you wouldn’t tell Mom. It was supposed to

Mr. Hanson,” Jeffrey said, his

second. ‘Why does Dad have to be so annoying

to talk to

the bus. “Your mother wanted me to ask where you are,” he said, his voice low and smooth. “But if you’d rather make her worry, feel free to be

silent.”

being so unfair,‘ Samuel thought, taking a breath to control his temper. ‘But I have to stay calm

had some car trouble,” Samuel grumbled, sounding annoyed. “Victor

long before you’re

Victor’s voice came clearly through the phone. “Bad accident in the tunnel.

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him?” Samuel asked his

“Why don’t you go on up and rest? I’ll let you know

Rebecca said. “I’ll wait for him down here. I have nothing else to

didn’t press her. A moment later, he ended

made herself comfortable on the living room sofa, pulling out her phone. She lost herself in research, scrolling through articles about industries she found

plan drafted now,‘ she thought with a surge of purpose. Then, as soon as I’m out of Jelasburg,

Jeffrey said, coming over and sitting

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