Chapter 2017

Graham paused, seemingly taken aback by her quick assumption of his motives.

Eventually, he spoke.

“Could you return to Peace Mountain? There’s something I need to discuss with you in person.

“Okay,” Lucinda responded, then promptly ended the call.

She requested a copy of Nala’s confession from Sonny and drove directly to Peace Mountain.

In the grandeur of Graham’s master bedroom, he sat at the bed’s edge, a box clutched in his hands, gazing out the window in deep contemplation.

Lucinda, maintaining her politeness, rapped on the frame of the already open door and entered, her high heels clicking on the floor.

“Is this about Valerie? I recall her mother sacrificed her life for yours.

Are you expecting me to convince Nathan to be lenient under these circumstances?” she inquired.

Graham met her gaze, silent, offering no denial to her speculation.

Nala’s statement from her

mother may have been ill, but her

oxygen

and yet he chose

the true nature of the person you’ve shielded,” she

at her, his expression one of sheer

was a mix of deep

began to pore over the

meanwhile, didn’t simply stand by

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palpable when she brought me to the island

about removing our mother’s oxygen mask, relishing in the terror she saw in our mother’s eyes as she

ounce of

resented not being acknowledged as a legitimate Simmons,

efforts to aid her, yet to Valerie,

you, supporting such a ruthless person while your own

word, Lucinda’s

a desire for justice, as if she wished

words in the confession, could barely whisper, “How

disbelief, inhaling deeply to

you believe it or not is

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