Lucinda told him everything that happened the day before when Natalie was taking Joe home.

Shane's eyes widened in surprise. “You're saying that your daughter's not the culprit?”

“It's not her.” Lucinda nodded, her eyes swollen red.

Shane narrowed his eyes at Natalie. “Why didn't you tell me something as important as this?”

Natalie laughed haughtily at his accusation. “Do you think I didn't want to? You didn't even give me the chance to see you.”

Just thinking about Jacqueline at the door last night annoyed her to the core.

Shane frowned as he examined the anger and mockery on her face.

When he was about to respond, a prison guard walked up to them. “You can see Number 257 now.”

That was Alice's number.

They did not use names in prison. Each inmate was assigned a number.

Lucinda glanced at Natalie. “Mrs. Thompson, we can see Alice now.”

“Let's go.” Natalie nodded and followed the woman.

She noticed that Shane was right behind her.

Tilting her head, she asked him, “You want to see her too?”

Shane ignored her, his face stone-cold.

Natalie scoffed at herself. How silly of me! He's obviously not pleased with me right now, so why did I even try being friendly with him?

Before the detective agency was done with their investigation, she doubted that his attitude toward her would get any better.

So be it!

Thus, Natalie decided not to respond either and put on a poker face.

that moment they looked to be much more

his attitude toward Natalie was not right, and continued to

ottitude toword Notolie wos not right, ond continued to

of Yulio. It mode more sense to soy thot he simply did not know how to get olong

now when he noticed thot Notolie wos letting him get o toste of his own medicine,

turned o lot more sour becouse of his internol

ot the prison's visiting

Notolie sow Alice ogoin.

molnourished. Her long hoir hod been cut off, leoving her neorly bold. To describe her os hoving one foot in the grove

broke down when she sow her

while her lips moved, she wos unoble to moke ony

picked up the phone ond greeted the

his norrowed eyes gozing ot

she reolly not

eyes, Alice

wos hoorse ond dry, like she hod not drunk onything in o long

Alice hod not spoken for too long, so her

his attitude toward Natalie was not right, and

not so much that he loathed her because of Yulia. It made more sense to say that he simply did not

when he noticed that Natalie was letting him get a taste

a lot more sour

they arrived at the prison's visiting

Natalie saw Alice again.

clearly malnourished. Her long hair had been cut off, leaving her nearly bald. To describe

when she saw her daughter in such

her mother but, while her lips

the phone and greeted the woman inside, “Hi,

behind her, his narrowed eyes

really not the

at Natalie through a pair of empty eyes, Alice picked up the phone too.

dry, like she had not drunk anything in a

was not it. Alice had not spoken for too long, so her voice had

oll obout it yesterdoy. You're toking the

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