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.

crossed the line!”

I caught her

with Christine’s situation, Margaret’s drama was the least of my worries. “Get lost!” I

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

that familiar black Maybach trailing my car, adding

up

me without

red light, I dialed his number, asking, “Why are

woman’s scoff came

you flatter yourself.”

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worried about me. He wanted to accompany me to the police

feeling as though she’d slapped me hard

She was

deluding myself for the past three years.

even need to enter to know what Christine had

why

come to the police station in the

still without a license plate, was

cop led

Christine.

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