No Strings Attached

Chapter 115

“No, it’s her mother, Victoria. Word on the street is she was desperate to sell and needed cash fast. Rumor has it she’s drowning in gambling debts. There’s got to be more to the story. I bet Attorney Clara was coerced, the informant muttered.

lan’s expression chilled further at the revelation. Suddenly, he remembered. On the anniversary celebration, Clara was wearing that very necklace. She detested Victoria. There was no way she’d gift her something so valuable.

Unless she was forced.

With that thought, lan shot to his feet. “Get the hotel surveillance footage.”

Half an hour later, lan was hunkered down in the hotel’s security room. He scanned the monitors but saw no sign of Victoria.

Just as he was about to throw in the towel, Clara burst into view, racing towards the staircase, the necklace clearly around her neck. When she next appeared on the screen, she was in Anders‘ arms.

zoom in. The necklace was

scenes, lan pieced it together. His eyes darkened as he watched, and

the prince of the powerful Hayes family in Northbridge; finding someone was

back. “Mr. Hayes, Victoria’s been nabbed by Big D’s goons, and she’s holed up at

of scholars, wouldn’t lay a finger on anyone

time and had Victoria brought to him.

she’d seen her savior. She fell to her knees, begging for mercy. “Mr. Hayes,

as he said, “Talk!”

threatened to jump if she didn’t pay up. I had scoop – ‘Hayes Corporation’s unjust dismissal leads to

to hand over the necklace. But I could tell she loves you deeply and cherishes that necklace. She hates me. She

in agony, trembling all over. Please, for the love she has for you, forgive me. I

throat. All he could picture was Clara, cornered and desperate