The Lost Heiress 302

Chapter 302 Old Ghosts and Fresh Bruises

The lively atmosphere froze in an instant. No one had expected Shane to show up.

Maddox was the first to react. He quickly stood and greeted him.

“Shane? What brings you here?”

“Weekend’s coming up. A friend invited me out to hang. Thought the air might be cooler this way, so I came. Didn’t expect to run into you guys.”

As he spoke, his gaze slid toward Sierra–then locked directly onto Johnathan.

“Long time no see, Mr. Yaeger.”

“It has been a while, Johnathan said coolly. “Heard you were injured. What, all healed now?”

The air around the group turned weird. Most people didn’t know the full story, but they did. Shane had gotten the beating of his life from Jade–and it definitely had something to do with Johnathan,

But Shane was a hard bastard. He didn’t flinch at the dig. Instead, he smiled and answered, “Good as new. Appreciate your concern. Mr. Yaeger.”

“Hope you don’t forget the pain just ‘cause the scars are gone.” Johnathan said with pointed sarcasm.

Shane chuckled. “No need to worry, Mr. Yaeger. You should probably focus on your own problems. Who knows? One of these days, something of yours might just get taken.”

Til be waiting I’d love to see who thinks they’ve got the balls.”

veiled barbs laced with tension–but neither made a move to

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for Shane, so he didn’t linger. He turned to head back but looked over his shoulder at them–pausing briefly to glance at

She was stone–cold sober now. No dazed

in his chest back down

the hell is he

wanted a chill night out–and then he showed up, that

hanging out anymore, so they all

but everything had already been prepared–clothes, toiletries, whatever they might need. It was all

soon as they stepped inside, Johnathan pinned Sierra against

was feverish, desperate, like he wanted to consume her

much of it–just figured he’d had a bit too much to

She

too, the alcohol buzzing through her system, and she responded to him

didn’t even make it to

night gave her a whole

the ground

Ghosts

+8 Pearls

It drove Sierra crazy.

until she actually started crying. And once she did, he lost what was

completely missed breakfast. When she

gnawed on some cold leftovers, cursing him under

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