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”

?” The maid 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 child of a big wealthy family still counts for something ’cause he still needs to be taken care of… He’s probably in some mortuary or something. Maybe you should come back

Funeral?!

Brendan not said

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

Deirdre’s grotesque face suddenly zooming in on her. Startled and taken aback, she cussed. “What the

prowl in the

heard the

right on the chest. The

ya lil’ freakshow ?! An ugly, blind a*s who’s also somehow super-entitled! God, why am I the one who has to deal with this disgusting

pain and threw her hands around the maid’s leg. “Don’t go! I’m begging you, let me in! I just want to tell them that it’s over… Tell

the sight

only to find her like this. A woman devoid of

someone by throwing herself around their leg-all so she

She was the one who should be protected-not the

something else fueled it: jealousy. This devotion was his right-his right alone! How could a lowly

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