Billionaire Ex-wife: I Can't Live Without You

Chapter 1985

To stay alert, she requested a policewoman to prepare a cup of coffee for her.

As the sky darkened, Lucinda noted the passing of three hours.

The officers dispatched to the Paynes’ house had not yet returned.

Without access to her phone or a clock in the room, she relied on her sense of time.

She couldn’t help but summon an officer and inquire, “What time is it now?”

“It’s already seven o’clock.

”

“Seven already?” Lucinda was taken aback, realizing it was evening.

“Sir, the officers who went to the Paynes’ house for my belongings haven’t returned.

Have you checked on them?”

The officer looked puzzled.

“I apologize, Mrs.

Payne.

Our station shifts change in the evening.

The officer who was working with you has finished for the day.

have been a lapse in communication during

into it

”

Lucinda’s frustration was evident.

you follow up on why they haven’t returned from the Paynes’

Is there an issue?”

I will have

Please do not worry.

”

Lucinda was left to wait, her

had resolved a crucial issue at the border and were back in

Upon their plane’s ar

immediately tried

two unanswered calls, concern crept

to ignore

his anxiety

just as it was about to disconnect for the third time, but it wasn’t Lucinda on the

“Mr.

Payne, have you returned?”

mix of surprise and concern

you answering Lucinda’s phone? Where

detained by the

about an issue, but

bag were

Norton’s bedroom.

be discovered, I

”