Jade's hysterics left Frank impatient, and he raised his other hand to slap her across the face, snapping, "Listen closely! I didn't kill your daughter-someone's trying to frame me! Now tell me what happened before Luna died, and I might catch the killer sooner!" "..."

The slap actually knocked some sense into Jade, and she wheezed, "Luna... was with that boy named Borc Zomer. After that, she called me for help, and... And..."

Frank released Jade right then and wheeled on Peter, who flinched right then, with a sharp glare.

"We tried to stay with her, but Luna refused to let us come along, and she..."

He trailed off, sighing in frustration. "She snapped at me and the rest of my boys, calling us slaves and bitches, even Helen..."

"I can vouch for Mr. Lane's testimony."

Another security guard scowled as he strode up, growling through clenched teeth, "That woman really doesn't know what's good for her! We reasoned with her, telling her not to go anywhere alone with that man, but she called us names and told us we had no right to meddle, including you..."

The security trailed off, though Frank could tell what he meant from his hesitation and anger.

sighed exasperatedly. "We had no choice but to wait in

the time we kicked down the door. There's only voice

murder was premeditated,

on the shoulder,

understand. This

home and

this place

Peter nodded, feeling

as the security guards worked for a moment before walking up to Jade

who this Borc

"Borc Zomer? Oh..."

was spacing out as she was on the floor but came to her senses when she

As in

did a double take the only person whom Jade

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