Chapter 281

Chapter 281

Daphne’s smile stiffened as she set the cat down on the sofa. “So you came all this way just for a stranger?”

“Answer me!” Judd’s tone grew sharper.

The housekeeper, who had been in the kitchen, hurried out when she heard the commotion and found the living room crackling with tension, like a drawn bow ready to snap.

Mother and son stared each other down for a long time.

The housekeeper tried to calm things. “Sir, you shouldn’t speak to your

mother like that…”

“What business is it of yours?”

His cold indifference made Daphne’s chest tighten. In the end, she relented first. “I only locked her up to teach her a lesson.”

“At the vineyard outside town?”

She nodded. “Yes.”

He clenched his jaw. “You just locked her up?”

have someone you

you mean,

you?” Daphne’s surprise was genuine. “That Moore boy said you’ve been interested in a woman

as you.”

She admitted it herself. Why

laughed. “If I were interested in her, would I

the sofa, her

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color.

after him, “It’s late, you

doorway and looked back. “If she’s had

engine fading into the night. She grabbed her phone and called the driver. “When you took that girl to the vineyard, you didn’t

us to cooperate with Miss Winthrop. We just dropped her off and left. Whatever

understood. She’d been outmaneuvered by

younger.

call, she dialed another

morning sunlight streaming through her

his head bowed slightly, one hand gently holding hers. He wore only a gray dress shirt, sleeves rolled up to reveal his forearms, his jacket draped over the back of

her throat felt raw. She coughed, instinctively raising

on his

“I’m thirsty.”

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