She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 860:

She didn’t know much about the Russell family. Even less about Norah. Her only memory of her was at a mixer, watching her greet Freya with effortless poise. She was breathtaking. Yet now, that same woman was capable of such venom.

Freya, clueless about any of this, left the restaurant with her father and the others before heading off separately.

That night, after dinner, Freya settled into her study to get some work done.

In his room, Kristian was on the phone with Gerard. Gerard kept things vague, saying, “From what Melvin told me, it doesn’t seem like Ms. Briggs is afraid of ghosts.”

“Doesn’t seem like it?” Kristian was unimpressed with such a halfhearted answer.

“Melvin’s just an assistant. Sure, he knows a lot about her life and work, but that doesn’t mean he knows everything,” Gerard said, clearly uninterested in digging deeper. “If you want, I can ask her father, her sister, or even her friends.”

“Don’t,” Kristian snapped.

If Gerard started asking around, Freya would hear about it for sure.

she

fed up with his incompetence, cut in, “Pick

guard. He was still in Jeucwell. How on earth was he supposed

you hear

as he played the part convincingly enough, Kristian would chalk it up to poor

the newest

phone, noticed the

call and

still on vacation—and a little radio silence for a day or

this made him appreciate the luxury of being single; he couldn’t begin to

message, he gave it no more thought and set his phone

had planned to rest as well, but given his boss’s

Freya was still working.

across the screen, she calmly picked up. “Hello, who is