Masked In Nobility: Secrets Of Mrs. Chavez by Selina Gorges

Eric trembled, trying to slip through with a mix of truth and lies He lowered his head in guilt, not daring to look at Yvette.

Yvette smiled faintly and said in a soft voice, “Sit back down.”

Eric froze, thinking he had misheard her. He hesitated and asked uncertainly, “W-What did you say?”

Yvette’s brow twitched in slight impatience. Seeing her gesture, Eric instinctively recoiled against the wall.

He knew he hadn’t misheard her. Crawling back onto the chair in the interrogation room, he sat still, not daring to move.

Yvette took an old-fashioned pocket watch out of her pocket, its cracked surface making it look worn with age.

Eric saw the pocket watch and felt puzzled, wondering what she was planning to do.

Yvette stared at Eric, and her delicate hand gently swung the old pocket watch. As Eric stared at the watch, his eyes began to lose focus, and everything around him seemed to blur, including Yvette’s exquisite face.

The watch swung faster and faster until Eric completely lost consciousness. His eyes went vacant, losing all sense of sanity. Yvette pursed her lips, put the watch away, and softly asked, “Who told you to crash into Zachary’s car?”

told me that Zachary’s brakes had failed. All I had to do was wait at Marine Road’s middle section, wait for his car to come out, then crash into it. Afterward, I just had to pretend it was a case of overworking at the police station. He promised that he would get me the best lawyer to defend me and even offered me 1.5 million dollars to buy a house and marry a

leaned back, nonchalantly asking, “Does Jason have a grudge against

knows that his real name is Jason Wilson. He’s been working for Dennis for years. He knows that the Smith family

Slowly, she snapped her

mind had been blank for a few minutes. He looked up at Yvette, still unaware of everything he had just confessed. He stubbornly said, “You

raising an eyebrow. “Is your brother Jason Davis or Jason

he struggled to deny it. “What are you talking about?

already obtained the information she wanted, so she lost interest in continuing the interrogation. She stood up and walked toward the door. Then she paused for a moment, her voice laced with coldness. “You know that your brother is just using you. If he really cared about you, you wouldn’t be in the situation you’re in now, not even able to marry a wife. Do you know how much the gardener at the

the door open and left. Behind her, Eric’s cries echoed as if his last hope had been taken away.

childhood, Jason had been looking down on him. When he failed the exams, Jason went to university and left their hometown, not returning for twenty years. When he finally did come back, he asked him to harm others. Eric had desperately clung to that fragile sense of familial bond, but now, he regretted it. The very

felt that Eric was indeed a pitiable man, used by his brother, still trying to protect

a negative impact on Seacrity’s economy. Zane didn’t know the history between the Smith and Chambers families, but he thought the family grudges here were truly terrible. He didn’t

years ago, he had discussed hypnotism with a psychologist he had worked with on cases. He knew that timing, environment, and the hypnotist were all important. The human mind was the most complex thing, and

you only saw on TV. I didn’t expect that she could do it. How did she hypnotize him? Was it just with a pocket watch? I’ve got to ask her where she bought it. I

made Jeremiah