Chapter 178

My heart skipped a beat, and I guiltily averted my gaze.

Was he implying that he never lied, but I was the chronic deceiver?

What had I lied to him about…

As I stepped out of the dilapidated mental institution, a swarm of reporters and onlookers

blocked the entrance.

They were all hounding Dexter, pressing him with questions about why, as the CEO of the Fitzgerald Group, he would get involved in a kidnapping, an act so blatantly illegal and disorderly.

Dexter climbed into the car with a dark expression. “No comment.”

The reporters were obviously here for him. If this got out, the Fitzgerald Group’s reputation would be in tatters.

Dexter glanced at me coldly, silent, as the police led him away.

“The Fitzgerald Group’s CEO involved in a kidnapping!”

“Why would someone in his position kidnap anyone?” the reporters murmured among themselves, and the bystanders speculated that Dexter had lost his mind.

Group’s stock would plummet by the next

Dexter crossed someone?

eyed Colin suspiciously. “Did you do this?”

much of a

sighed, casting a glance my way before getting into the car. “If they pin the kidnapping on him and the evidence is clear, the Fitzgeralds may come

taken aback. If the Fitzgeralds believed Dexter was behind it, Hailey would

seek me out.

with Dexter, but I wasn’t sure I could

car, I hesitated, then decided to speak up.

did

head. “I want him

Colin spoke of Dexter, his

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before the Fitzgerald family got wind of

Hailey came to visit me at the Langleys‘ estate, she

grief–stricken and fallen ill, recuperating in Harbor City. She had returned

team. They might not make the kidnapping charge stick, but Dexter’s false imprisonment of me

me sign a statement of forgiveness to salvage Dexter’s reputation and mitigate

Mrs. Fitzgerald is here,” the housekeeper announced,

room.

instinctively, yet I remained composed,

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