Rebecca watched Daniel make the phone call. "Daniel, maybe we should just let it go. You can't turn your back on your own father for me."

Daniel slipped his arm around her. "Don't worry, Rebecca. My dad's a reasonable man. I'm sure once he meets you, he'll like you just as much as I do."

Who could possibly dislike a kind girl like Rebecca?

"Really?" Rebecca blushed, a little shy.

"Really!"

***

Meanwhile, in the Christensen family's game room, Anthea and Sherman were locked in a tense chess match.

Neither gave an inch, each move calculated, the pieces clicking softly on the board.

Anthea raised her brow. "I've never met anyone who could actually challenge me before. You're only the second." Most games, she barely had to think.

But with Sherman—and that infuriating stranger from online-it was different.

Both of them were masters, the kind who demanded your full attention. The tiniest distraction, and you'd be left with a board in ruins.

Sherman paused, rolling a chess piece between his fingers. "So who was the first?"

Anthea set a piece on the board, her fingertips lingering. "Someone you wouldn't know."

Why couldn't he ever know these people?

That strange sense of familiarity crept over him again. It was uncomfortable-like

pressure trapped in

you and that person would

only grunted in

He answered,

a moment, he ended the call,

Anthea asked,

said, "Daniel's

been properly fooled by Rebecca. Can't wait to

"Can't fix stupid."

think there's something fishy about Sandra's death. Maybe... it has something

picked up a chess piece, his interest

her mom had passed her dad's still in prison and she

nodded, thinking back. "Yeah,

why I'm

involved in Sandra's death" Anthea leaned in. "When I went to the fun went

eralhome found

-

Sandra had taken sleeping pills before she died. But Sandra wasn't the

board. "My guess? When Rebecca found out your family wasn't bankrupt, she got a nasty fight with

el.not

Sandra for

but unshakable, sinking deep

the chess piece between his fingers, brow

out if Rebecca

nodded. "You have

"Bring Daniel tonight. Seven-thirty, next

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