Marrying A Secret Zillionaire Happy Ever After (Linsey)

Chapter 945:

Still, her thoughts spun between Linsey’s calm face and Collin’s cold gaze. Her heart grew restless.

Just as she was about to stand, a commanding voice echoed from the stairs. “Joanne, right? Come upstairs. I want to talk to you.”

It was Kase. Joanne froze. She had never expected Kase, who had always acted like she didn’t exist, to speak to her—especially now that Haven was gone.

Joanne parted her lips and whispered, “Alright.”

She pivoted away, each step toward the staircase heavier than the last as dread coiled within her.

Her thoughts spiraled into a maelstrom of dark possibilities.

Though Collin hadn’t sought retribution, she trembled at the thought of Kase exacting vengeance for Haven’s downfall.

of indignation rose in

everything, she had merely been Haven’s accomplice, never the architect of their schemes. Haven had

attempt on Linsey’s life—that had been Haven’s creation

had simply facilitated, gathering intelligence about Linsey and Kylee’s history and

peripheral involvement had kept Joanne beyond

so, Joanne couldn’t shake her

head of the Walton family to destroy someone

Joanne had lost her only shield in

ordinary woman with no distinguished background to

efforts to forge something better, she faced the prospect of settling into predictable patterns: marrying an average man and disappearing into the comfortable anonymity of

study, her heart still raced beneath her

meet his—sharp, assessing eyes that seemed to