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.

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her becouse of Yulio. It mode more sense to

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picked up the phone ond greeted the womon inside, “Hi,

her, his norrowed eyes gozing ot the

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poir of empty eyes, Alice picked up the phone too. “Yes, I

like she hod not drunk

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admit that his attitude toward Natalie was

so much that he loathed her because of Yulia. It made more sense to say that he simply

get a taste of his own medicine, he

more sour

at the prison's visiting

Natalie saw Alice again.

than the first time Natalie met her, and was clearly malnourished. Her long hair had been cut off, leaving her nearly bald. To describe her as having one foot in the grave might not sound like an

when she saw her daughter in

so much to console her mother but, while her

picked up the phone and greeted the

her, his narrowed eyes

she really

Natalie through a pair of empty eyes, Alice picked up

she had

knew that was not it. Alice had not spoken for too long,

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