Chapter 0056

Chapter 0056

All his life, Dylan had prided himself on being shrewd. Yet here he was, realizing he'd been played by Anne-a woman more than a decade his junior. The flash drive had laid everything bare, recording her repeated manipulations and her attempts to shift blame onto Suzy.

It wasn't just this recent kidnapping; even the last time, Suzy had been falsely accused. He looked down at the medical report Desmond had just handed him.

A stab wound to the abdomen, narrowly missing her spleen.

A fractured shin on her left leg.

Multiple abrasions on her face.....

When she'd called to say she was seriously injured and needed him to authorize treatment, it had all been true.

"Suzy..."

her

Dylan's grip on the medical report tightened as a sharp, unfamiliar pain stabbed through his chest, like tiny needles piercing his heart.

Desmond noticed the look of regret in his eyes and hesitated before saying, "We're still investigating the source of the flash drive. Just give me a bit more time, sir."

didn't even glance up. “No

intended to stay hidden, it wouldn't

he finally turned to Desmond. "When will

seem like Mr. Matthew has any immediate plans

I'll have to pay

picture, and the deal with Red Falcon is over. Claude's succession has nothing to do with us

see Mrs. Wright, you could simply go. After all, you do

was falsely accused doesn't erase her intentions from three years

has

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the Hadlow estate has

replied, biting

the

was just an excuse to

hides beneath them,” Desmond thought. When Suzy learned that Dylan had effectively banished Anne from his life, she didn't feel nearly as gleeful

Allen couldn't contain his satisfaction, picturing Anne's desperate pleas to see Dylan, only to be turned away at every attempt. "She must be ready to

may forgive sins wrought by fate, but

serious “Anyone who's done wrong will face their reckoning, it's

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