Chapter 525

Sarah tilted her head slightly, her smile laced with mockery.

"All I know is that he somehow tripped and knocked himself out. You weren't even here, yet you immediately assumed I did it. Why is that, Sydney?"

"You-!" Sydney's face turned red with anger.

She scoffed. "So, you're saying he harassed you, failed, and then somehow managed to knock himself unconscious?"

Sarah beamed. "That's exactly what happened."

Sydney opened her mouth to argue, but then-her eyes darted to a shadow in the

corner.

Someone was there.

"Who's there? Show yourself!"

The moment Zachary stepped into the light, Sydney's breath hitched.

Of course she recognized him.

"Mr. Reynolds...? Why are you here?"

Zachary ignored her, his expression unreadable.

"I have things to do. I'll be leaving now."


Sydney's eyes flashed, and she quickly stepped forward. "Mr. Reynolds, can you help me take my cousin to the hospital?" Her voice was soft, almost pleading.

A face like hers-pale as snow, delicate and pitiful-few men could refuse her requests.

didn't even

glance,

her

I suggest you hurry

with that, she

her, her hands

Later that evening.

o'clock, Sarah arrived back at the Sanders

reached the entrance, a furious figure

WHAT DID

her face twisted with rage, her finger


glanced at her. "No idea what

dropped my cousin off at the hospital, and the next thing I know the police showed up and arrested him! Don't tell me you had nothing to do

harassed me. I called the police. What part of that

How could you do this? Get him

as she looked her dead in the

at the theatre, and I called the cops. I don't

without another word, she turned to

there! Sarah, you

grabbing Sarah's arm.

crisp sound of a

cheek burning as she

hit me?! How dare

anger surged, and without thinking, she raised her hand high,


wrist midair, her grip

Benjamin was there. You knew exactly what he was planning to do to me. Don't act

eyes held a chilling intensity, an undeniable pressure that

her anger flared again. "It was you, wasn't it? You sabotaged my dress! How else could it have fallen

her arm free, but Sarah's

was sharp. "Stay the hell away from me, Sydney. Or I'll make sure you end

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