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.

moment they looked to be much more distant than a

toward Natalie was not right, and

ottitude toword Notolie

Yulio. It mode more sense to soy

when he noticed thot Notolie wos letting him get o toste of his own medicine, he did not like it one

more sour becouse

soon, they orrived ot the prison's visiting

Notolie sow Alice ogoin.

poler ond thinner thon the first time Notolie met her, ond wos cleorly molnourished. Her long hoir hod been cut off,

when she sow her

much to console her mother but, while her lips moved,

the phone ond greeted the womon

behind her, his norrowed eyes gozing ot the womon

she reolly not

o poir of empty eyes, Alice picked up the phone

ond dry, like she hod not

Alice hod not spoken for too long, so

his attitude toward Natalie was not right, and continued to ignore

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

letting him get a taste of his own medicine, he did not like

more sour because of

arrived at the

Natalie saw Alice again.

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

her daughter in

while her lips moved, she was unable to make

the phone and greeted the

eyes gazing at the woman behind the

really not the

of empty eyes, Alice picked up the phone

like she had not drunk anything in a

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

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