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

it wouldn't

dark glint flashed in his eyes as he finally turned to Desmond. "When will Claude officially

"It doesn't seem like Mr. Matthew has any immediate plans to hand

gaze deepened. “Looks like I'll have

of the picture, and the deal with Red Falcon

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

scoffed. “Whether or not she was falsely accused doesn't erase her

Falcon has ended, Claude is a valuable

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the Hadlow estate

biting back

the

just an excuse to

and the truth often hides beneath them,” Desmond thought. When Suzy learned

away at every attempt. "She must be ready to bang her head against the wall from

lightly, "Heaven may forgive sins wrought by fate, but self-made sins

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

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