The Billionaire Husband's Betrayal by Nancii Agosto

Chapter 48 Leonardo’s POV

Chapter 48: Leonardo’s POV

As soon as Claire and I retrieve our identification, I place a call for a old friend of mine named Mason. We had gone to school together as children and he was the leading detective detective and sheriff in our county. I watch Claire through the window of the corrections center as I wait for him to answer.

“Leo? It’s been such a long time, man. How the hell are you?” His chipper voice responded after the second ring.

“Hey Mason, I’m doing alright these days. I wanted to talk to you about something really important.” Pleasantries were important in most settings but this was dyer.

“What’s going on, buddy? Does this have anything to do with Charlotte’s father?” His tone changed to serious.

“No. Not at all. I need help clearing my wife’s brothers‘ name. He was arrested for drug possession, intent to sell and opiates, his names Matthew.” I wait for a response as the line goes silent.

“It was good bust, Leo. I promise it went by the books.” He answers in his defense as he had been the leading detective in the investigation.

in which he’d need to

thing is: we’d need more evidence to let him go. He looks a lot more guilty than

into it.” I felt defeated but there was nothing I could do to ease Claire’s

identify their origin and make a timeline for who they originally came from and how they ended up in Matthew’s apartment and I’ll go over the evidence against

a good start. I’ll see what I can get out of Matthew. He says he doesn’t know much of what happened that day

clean. We even did a substance trace swab on his hands and that was clean. There should’ve been something there if

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by chance, how much the value would have been for those drugs?”

dollars. I mean – these were some pretty heavily filled bags.” One hundred forty thousand dollars? Matthew had never won any bets even remotely large enough to make a move that

would’ve been able to afford that.” I was certain of that.

that high at his job or with his previous gambling history.

is a mess after everything that’s happened.

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