"It's the truth..."

Winter teared up miserably even as she picked up her phone. "Ask Helen yourself if you don't believe me."

"Lies!" Gina kept snapping angrily, but she was already panicking.

She knew her daughter better than anyone—Helen had been leaving for work earlier these days, even before sunrise.

Gina presumed that it was about work, but to think that she was coming here for Frank.

Though her indignation flared, she was afraid to press the issue, instead making a mental note to interrogate her daughter next time she saw her.

"Hey, have you called that bastard yet?" she asked instead.

"No. Frank's not answering. I think he's busy," Winter replied, shaking her head even as she glared defiantly at Gina and Jade.

away from his crimes!" Cindy laughed

him suffer! It's all you Northstream Lanes' fault—if Helen married that scum, my daughter wouldn't

ultimatum. "You'd better bring him in, or you're not

"Please, just

turned to rage as she bellowed at Carol, "Tell Frank Lawrence to come to Lane Manor and apologize if he wants his little bitch back,

toward Hughie, she pointed at Winter and snapped,

Hughie nodded and strode up without another word with a sinister

way, sending her stumbling violently into a

seized Winter, picking her up

"Mom! Mom!!!"

struggled when she saw her mother hurt

were insignificant to a big man like him—he simply slapped her in

I guess I could have a taste," Hughie chuckled to

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