No longer a pushover

Chapter 260

This was Frank's own doing-his well-deserved retribution.

"Frank, why are you coughing up blood?"

Lucas hurriedly helped Frank sit up. "I just saw Donovan leaving with Xenia. What's going on? Donovan said you're insisting on sending Xenia to jail for Noelle!"

"Lucas, do you believe me?"

"Of course I believe you."

Frank recounted everything that had happened at the coffee shop the day before. "That's how it all went down. But with the surveillance footage destroyed,

Donovan doesn't believe me."

Lucas found himself torn.

"Frank, it's not that I don't believe you. But if I hadn't seen the footage myself, I'd find it hard to imagine that Xenia could be so manipulative or that she drugged Noelle. It's too much to handle."

"I understand that it's hard to accept. If I hadn't seen the footage with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it either!"

Frank's face was pale, his chest heavy, as though he couldn't catch his breath. "But don't be so quick to trust anything Xenia says."

a

Frank was, Lucas swallowed the

the end, he nodded. "Alright,

wondering if there was some

Frank's condition looked

out why Noelle took sick leave and which hospital she's staying at. Go visit her for me. Tell her that even if it costs me my life, I'll make

his

room, he immediately tried to

found she had already deleted him from her

her directly-but her number had

realize just how

to another phone number and dialed her again. This time, the call was

"Noelle, it's me."

was cold when she heard Lucas'

free,

he have Xenia to take care

Xenia now. He's already

ask, "Noelle, was it really

see the

He suspects Xenia took it, but there's no

were confirmed upon