"Kind, virtuous?"

Frank almost laughed from sheer frustration-someone like Jackie, the manager of seedy joints, was kind and virtuous?!

"It doesn't matter! Jackie was killed, and that's a fact!"

A middle-aged woman strode up just then, choking with tears as she snapped, "He was such a good boy, but he's now dead because of that heinous prick!" "Exactly! Jackie's always been our little angel. How could he have attempted murder? It must be slander!"

"We can't believe him at all. And wasn't he the one who wore a knockoff suit?"

"Exactly. You can't trust a word he says!"

"Come to think of it, Lanecorp's probably nothing good. Helen Lane must be despicable just like him, which explains why they're a couple."

"Hah! I already knew that their entire family is a nest of vipers."

With the other women who knew Jackie jumping in to defend his honor, sentiment quickly turned one-sided.

watch them slander Helen, but before he

he

me that he's going to start killing us now that we've exposed

can

left frustrated right then, as he

her feet-was left wondering if Frank was really trying

Timothy Clarke, a rotund white-haired old man, limped toward the crowd, flanked by a large group of

Clarke family, and by his side was Harley Fuch, his wife and

"Dad, it's-"

Before the white-suited bridegroom

Clarke could speak, Timothy held up a hand, stopping him. "I

havoc at

even been a

"Yeah..." Eddie nodded.

"Hmph!"

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