Chapter 58

Now, with him making this simple request, I had no reason to refuse.

Bryant and I were already living separately anyway. A divorce paper was just a formality to make the separation clearer, nothing urgent.

Besides, Timothy’s eightieth birthday was just a month away. It would be here before we

knew it.

Gary walked me out of the study.

“Mr. Ferguson is just looking out for you and the young master, hoping you’d take some more time to think things over,” he said gently.

I was about to respond when my phone buzzed with a call.

An unknown landline number.

“Hello, is this a family member of Christine Jackson?”

“Yes, speaking.”

“We’re calling from the RiverCity Police Department. Could you come down here as soon as possible?”

Panic set in before I could even ask for details, and the line went dead.

I rushed downstairs, only to be confronted by an irate Margaret the moment I stepped out

of the elevator.

the line!”

me, I

drama was the least of my worries. “Get

shrugged off her grip and strode away, my heart in turmoil over what could have

was, that familiar black Maybach

Bryant up

let Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was

number,

scoff came through

you flatter

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sweet. “Bry is just worried about me. He wanted to accompany me to the police

she’d slapped me

was

now; I had been deluding myself for

the police station, I didn’t even need to

why

police station in the dead of

Panamera parked at the Ferguson Group earlier, still without a license plate,

a cop led me

Christine.

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