Chapter 28

Heh...

Victoria, you're such a fool. Even now, you still fall for McNeil's sweet talk.

McNeil himself opened the car door for her. He took her hand, looking into her eyes with sincerity. "Tonight, I'll bring Gwyn home for dinner."

Victoria pulled her hand free and reached for her suitcase.

"Driver, let's go."

At McNeil's command, the car started up. Out of the corner of her eye, Victoria saw him pull out his phone and make a call. Whoever he was calling, she no longer cared.

When Haley saw Victoria, she was so overjoyed she nearly burst into tears.

"Ma'am, you're home!"

Haley wasn't a Langford family employee. She was the old housekeeper Victoria had brought with her from the Turner family estate, the woman who had watched Victoria grow up from childhood.

After Victoria married McNeil, Haley had naturally switched to calling her "ma'am." "Yes, I'm back."

headed upstairs and returned to the master bedroom she shared with

lay a share transfer agreement she'd secretly signed with the old man

home? The document hadn't budged from its

it up, and on her way back downstairs, she tossed the agreement straight into the fireplace, watching as

the sofa, Victoria spent half

years as McNeil's assistant at the Langford Group six years ago,

six

for five full minutes before finally sending her

for assistant manager

closed her laptop and began

you're free tomorrow, let's meet

she finished,

here's all the information you requested. Mr. Miller has been looking at engagement rings lately-he even took someone to

the file and began flipping

of Simms Miller's "close friends"-the women he'd been involved with

cycled through girlfriends frequently, but Victoria's private investigator

matter how many women Simms dated, there was always one constant-a

even live in Starfall City, but in a

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