Chapter 26 You Liar!

The call was connected. Brendan gnashed his teeth as he said, “Where the hell are you, McKinnon?!”

Deirdre said nothing. At the end of her silence came a click

-and the call was hung up.

She stuck the phone back into her pocket, feeling disappointed. That had not been Sterling, as she had hoped. How was he? Was he okay? She had no idea how he was.

The only silver lining right now was how well-known the Fuller family really was in the city. Even a run-of-the mill cab driver knew exactly where to take Deirdre when she asked him to take her to their house.

She paid the driver, who told her where the doorbell was, and pressed it. There was a series of quick footsteps, accompanied by a voice thick with annoyance . “Which nutcase is it this time? It’s like they all think they can just ring whenever they feel like it!”

“I’m sorry,” Deirdre huffed, feeling anxious . “I… I just

wanted… to know where Sterling is? He’s not picking up his phone”

scoffed. It was palpable just how little she respected the young man-even though he was supposedly one of her employers. “Just a bastard child, that one, but oh-so-many troubles! I guess being the bastard

Funeral?!

face paled. Had Brendan not said he was

lunged at the iron gate, animated by her fear and alarm. “Please! Please let me come inside to

was Deirdre’s grotesque face suddenly zooming in on her.

you prowl

the

force striking her right on the chest.

in, do you? Do you?! Who do you think you are, ya lil’ freakshow ?! An ugly, blind a*s who’s also somehow super-entitled! God,

through her pain and threw her hands around the maid’s leg. “Don’t go! I’m begging

the sight that

the GPS… only to find her like this. A woman devoid of any dignity or

herself around their leg-all so

a blind woman! She was the one who should be protected-not

his right-his right alone! How could a lowly bastard like

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