Chapter 9

"What did you just say?"

Yasmine arched an eyebrow, her fierce gaze making the housemaid shrink away instantly.

Victoria had been standing in place for ten whole minutes, her beautiful eyes fixed on the winding staircase ahead, her heart feeling utterly hollow.

At last, she found her voice, though it was little more than a hoarse whisper.

"Yasmine, let's go."

It was time. She didn't belong here, nor anywhere that had McNeil in it.

They were finished-had been for a long time.

A sleek black town car sat abandoned in the driveway.

Victoria passed by it without so much as a glance.

Anything that belonged to McNeil, she wanted nothing to do with. If Violet wanted it, she could have it.

Yasmine flagged down a cab for her. Victoria sat alone in the back seat, gazing out the window as the city slipped by.

again, wildflowers would bloom, and the mountains would be shrouded in gentle morning mist.

that all she'd ever wanted-peace and quiet, a life shared with someone she

McNeil's gilded mansion, there was simply no place

of her phone pulled Victoria back to reality. Dr. Kelvin's

pressed the phone

to give up his place for the surgery to someone else. His condition isn't improving, and at his age, every day he waits is dangerous. I thought you should

old man was

did that even

silence, then suddenly, a name flashed through her

Violet.

the old man wasn't handing

heart twisted painfully. Dr. Kelvin's voice cut through her fog. "Victoria, are

hospital

traffic as

hospital corridors smelled as

man had just woken up, and for once, he seemed

your place for the surgery," Victoria said

couldn't

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