Chapter 182 My Person

"Clearly." Micah Clemens sympathetically regarded her. "Your father was a figure in his own right, and you didn't inherit his savvy? You can't even see through this simple deceit?" "I have to get to the bottom of this..."

Sadie Roth clenched her fists. Being swindled was one thing, but now she suspected there was more to her father's death.

"Good luck with that," Micah Clemens said, standing up to leave.

"Hey!" Sadie Roth stopped him. "Can't you help me?"

"You're not one of mine, why should I help you?" Micah Clemens was blunt. "If you were, I'd take on the world for you!"

"Pfft!" Sadie Roth shot back insolently. "I'll get a lawyer to check into it."

"Suit yourself." Micah Clemens turned to leave, nonchalantly adding, "But remember, by 9:30 tomorrow night, if you haven't gotten that necklace back, You'll have no choice but to come to me!"

...

panic, Sadie Roth remembered the

with Leah White in Bordeaux... There was no way she'd get it back in

night, her mind racing with thoughts of the eerie courier, Micah Clemens and his male escort facade, and the

shook her head in an attempt to clear it, silently urging herself to take things step by step

be jolted awake shortly after by the insistent ringing of her phone. Groggily, she answered, and Leah White's furious voice erupted from the

those initial harsh words left Sadie struggling to

up, so you offered your necklace as collateral. Now you go whining to my husband? He just called me, demanding I return the necklace or else he's divorcing

like we forced you. And yet, you go blabbering nonsensically to Ronan." "You're quite something, playing

the necklace, and instead, you left the country wearing it, blatantly stalling." "I

off Leah White mid-sentence, provoking her on purpose,

"You wouldn't dare..."

gone, I'll

that final taunt, Sadie hung up

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