The Lost Heiress 351

hapter 351 No One Came

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Sierra had been in a somber mood, but Mateo’s rambling had her laughing despite herself.

Seeing her smile, Mateo added, “Sierra, you’re gonna run into more guys like that in the future. The second and third generations? They play way dirtier.”

He didn’t know how else to put it. Sierra was just… too clean. She couldn’t stand filth.

But some stains couldn’t be scrubbed away.

Every family had a few rotten ones.

Sierra looked at him. “You think the way I handled Trev was wrong?”

“Of course not!”

Mateo shook his head quickly. “He bullied you. You fought back. He had it coming.”

“I just meant…”

He fumbled for the right words, and Sierra finished them for him. “Don’t be so cynical? Don’t be so self–righteous?”

“Something like that.”

He’d noticed it back in Maviston–Sierra had a strong sense of justice. If she didn’t, Kason would’ve been dealt with long ago.

“I’m not trying to be righteous. I just keep thinking about myself.”

Sierra lowered her gaze. “Back when I was in prison, when people were hurting me, I kept wishing someone would help. Someone who’d speak up and expose what they were doing.”

But no one did.

up–not even when she

she chose to make everything public. Someone had

lived through it can understand how

to get it. People who haven’t been

despair feels

“I’m sorry, Sierra.”

now. He apologized

No

didn’t do anything wrong. We just

didn’t want to keep talking about it.

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stepped out when he heard the alert, and the three of them gathered around the

domestic cases go, so far, Sierra’s is the only one. But

up the profiles while talking. “Look, here

last year

year.

of them were from a few years ago. The most recent one was just

drug

something a few

there’s also another possibility–they just

much looser. Some people used all kinds of substances. just for

to believe that second

abroad, recreational drugs were so common that nobody batted

first patient’s data–dated five

he really cared about was whether they were using

I can get my hands

that meant the substance existed out there, Johnathan had spent

discussing the details over dinner. When it was

Johnathan got an

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