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.”

with tension–but neither made a move to rip the mask off

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group on the other side was waiting for Shane, so he didn’t linger. He turned to head back but looked over his shoulder at them–pausing briefly to glance at

sober now. No dazed look

whatever was swirling in his chest back down and walked

hell is he doing here?” Mateo

out–and then he showed up, that

Nobody felt like hanging out anymore, so

brought anything with them, but everything had already been prepared–clothes, toiletries, whatever they might need. It was all tailored to

inside, Johnathan

kiss was feverish, desperate, like he wanted to consume

too much of it–just figured

She

tipsy too, the alcohol buzzing through her system, and

make it to the

that night gave her

the ground all

Ghosts

+8 Pearls

It drove Sierra crazy.

her until she actually started crying. And once she did, he

completely missed breakfast. When she finally woke up,

gone. She gnawed on some cold leftovers,

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