From Heartbreak to Happily Ever After

Chapter 498

Declan and Shelia made a hasty exit from the Nichols residence.

Juan descended from the second floor, his eyes scanning the room.

Joe approached him and reported, “Sir, I didn’t see Mr. Tracy here.”

A flicker of disappointment in Juan’s eyes. He had hoped to finally unmask Tracy, but Tracy didn’t even show up.

“Though Tracy didn’t show,” Joe continued, “Michael did.”

As if on cue, Michael sauntered over.

“Mr. Nichols, a pleasure to meet you.”

“Me too. Why didn’t Mr. McKinney come to the event?”

Michael chuckled, a sound like velvet. “Mr. McKinney couldn’t make it, but I’m here. It’s all the same, really.

raised an eyebrow, catching the

past, Michael had been nothing more than the McKinney Group’s top actor, but

Austin, could you enlighten

eye’s glinting with a mysterious

the supposed power behind the McKinney Group, had been conspicuously absent for some time, appearing only briefly at a masquerade and vanishing just as

you wanted to see the real force behind

grasped the implication and

the mastermind behind the McKinney Group,

room, Debra swirled her wine glass,

true power behind the McKinney Group, and Tracy would be relegated to the status of a mere

asked, “Is Michael really

Tracy and Debra

“What do you think?”

“I don’t know.”

that someone wise was in charge of the McKinney Group, but

was the

things you can’t control. Whether Michael is in charge of

then, Debra’s