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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

me, I caught her wrist in

was the least of my worries. “Get lost!” I

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

familiar black Maybach trailing my car,

up to this

really think I’d let Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was coming

his number, asking, “Why are you following me?”

came

you flatter

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me. He wanted to

though she’d slapped me hard across the face.

She was correct.

I had been deluding myself for the past three

station, I didn’t even need to enter to know what Christine had

why

police

still without a license plate, was

cop led

Christine.

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