Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 134

Megan had always steered clear of those flashy downtown nightspots.

Sullivan hated them, and that was reason enough to avoid them. But since she no longer cared what Sullivan thought, Megan found herself accepting Lucia’s invitation to hit the town.

The music in the bar was deafening, but Lucia seemed to thrive in the chaos, her body swaying to the beat with practiced ease. always been drawn to the glittering nightlife, a remnant from her less–than–gilded childhood.

Pouring Megan a glass of red wine, Lucia exclaimed, “This stuff goes straight to your head!”

Megan pulled her into a seat, her voice barely above a whisper, “Why here, of all places?”

She was worried about Lucia.

She had

Nobody knew that Lucía had lost her hearing in her left ear as a child, an injury sustained during a violent encounter with some thugs who were hounding her parents for debts. Megan had begged Wyatt to spare no expense on the best ENT specialists in Borough City, but the damage was irreversible.

it doesn’t hurt anymore. Life’s too short not to live it up. To hell with Sullivan, Timothy, Cressida, all of them can fuck

then, a fresh–faced twenty–something guy

vivid scarlet, gently caressed the boy’s hand, making him blush furiously. With

With an apologetic smile, Megan said to the

clean–cut and well–mannered. He brushed off the incident with a polite “No worries” and returned to his

wine and ranting, “Did you know Timothy’s getting engaged? He’s found a girl from his own social circle. I met her at a fashion show

Megan was taken aback.

for Lucia.

it off, then use his money to make

take me down a

scooped up Lucia, slurring and drunk. “I’m taking

sitting alone for a while, and perhaps Timothy and Lucia needed to

mind to call Sullivan and inform him that

call, Lucia vomited all over Timothy’s luxury car, treating it

mess, glared at the woman who was now struggling with her sickness and muttered, “You could