With both hands on the cold marble floor, she looked up at Jasper fearfully with tears in her eyes, not daring to say a word.

She feared that she might enrage Jasper and end up worse off than Edith.

Jasper lit a cigarette, took a drag, and blew out a ring of smoke. He said in a deep voice, "You have the jade pendant, don't you?"

Samantha went numb with shock. By now, her tears and snot had combined. She stuttered, "I-I have it at home. I-I just happened to pick it up..."

When she overheard Edith's phone call, she had learned that Jasper had slept with Willow and left her a token. Jasper wanted Willow to seek him out again with that token.

Samantha had found the pendant in the debris before Willow could and hid it away.

For the past five years, she kept using the pendant as an excuse to get money from Edith.

She had threatened to hand the pendant over to Jasper and reveal the truth if Edith didn't pay up.

Edith had always obliged out of fear of being exposed.

Samantha's money tree, so she

bring to Jasper so that the latter would assume that Willow

fake pendant was replicated based on

said, "There's no use keeping your hands and feet since they're dirty. We should

immediately

was going to

stuck in her throat. She wailed, "Mr. Hughes, I was wrong. I'll return the pendant to you at once. I won't

floor before she could even finish

sound of bones cracking. Samantha screamed in pain, feeling as if

wasn't over. After the bones of her fingers were crushed, the bodyguard straightened her legs before placing his hard leather shoe on

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filled

was ghastly, horrifying,

heard outside due to

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