Chapter 1711:

Bewilderment crossed Dolores’s face at his outburst. “What’s wrong with you? I haven’t done anything to make things difficult for you, have I? You’re my brother. Isn’t it natural for you to help me?”

Lowell shook his head, weariness seeping into his features. “No, I shouldn’t help you. It’s because I helped you that I regret it. I regret meddling in your affairs.”

Confusion flickered across Dolores’s face, but Lowell knew better than to expect understanding from her. His voice turned to ice as he delivered his final verdict. “There’s nothing more to discuss. Leave. I need to start working.”

Dolores exhaled sharply, her glare piercing through Lowell before she snatched her purse and stormed out of the office.

As the echoes of his sister’s departure faded, Lowell released a heavy sigh of relief, the tension slowly draining from his shoulders.

Though he had once been his sister’s willing accomplice, that single incident had changed everything. Now, the mere thought of helping Dolores filled him with revulsion.

Lowell raised his left hand, studying it in the harsh office light. The memory of that day—when he personally ended a young girl’s life—remained etched into his very being.

secret weighed on him like a gravestone. He’d never breathed a word of it to anyone, carrying this darkness in his heart. The knowledge that

won’t help her again. Never again,” he murmured softly

in the mall, relishing a rare break

family has been showing up a lot lately. I have a feeling they’re planning

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gentle, but underneath it, she’s unhinged. If her plans don’t work out,

of where this was

his coffee and said casually, “Find a guy. If Dolores really

sent a quick

set his coffee cup down, a prickle of awareness running through him. His gaze flicked to the far corner of the mall, where someone was inching closer, tying—and

Dolores’s people were as incompetent as she

fools had their

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