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.

might have been a lapse in communication during

look into it

”

Lucinda’s frustration was evident.

follow up on why they haven’t returned

Is there an issue?”

I will have a word with

Please do not worry.

”

Lucinda was left to wait,

from their journey, had resolved a crucial issue at

Upon their plane’s ar

immediately

two unanswered calls,

unlike Lucinda to ignore his

dialed again, his anxiety mounting with each

disconnect for the third time, but it

“Mr.

Payne, have you returned?”

Kern’s voice, a mix of surprise and concern in his

Lucinda’s

detained by the

to question her about an issue, but

phone and bag were left

Norton’s bedroom.

they might be discovered, I

”