No Strings Attached

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Clara nodded. "Remember Nicole, the one who conspired with Heidi to set me up back in the day? We never managed to track her down, right? That woman is Nicole, but she seems to have had some work done it doesn't look the same as before. When you knocked her to the ground, I spotted the distinctive black birthmark on her waist. We shared a dorm for four years in college; I couldn't possibly mistake someone else for her. Leonara must have stashed her away. Maybe we can get some of Leonora's secrets out of her."

At that, lan immediately grabbed his phone and called Edwin. The phone barely rang once before Edwin answered. "Ian, is Clara awake?"

"She's up, and all's good. Clara says the woman is Nicole, from my former secretarial team. Her family has always been under my influence. Maybe we can use that as leverage to get her to divulge something."

"Alright, I'll give it a try."

After hanging up, Edwin once again descended into the basement.

lay battered and bruised on the cold concrete floor,

one last chance.

reason I lost my job. I resented her marrying lan. We graduated from the same school. Why should she get to live the high life while I

showed a young boy playing soccer in a backyard with a man sitting beside him. That man was her fiancé, Kaleb. The sight of this broke Nicole's

an eerie threat. "Tell me everything you know, and I'll ensure their

cracked. After three years at Hayes Corporation, she was all too familiar

abroad on Leonora's orders, not realizing it had been lan's doing. The thought of

harm my son. I'll tell you everything you want

voice was cold as he demanded,