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."
to the master bedroom she shared with
a share transfer agreement she'd secretly signed with the old man
home? The document hadn't budged from its spot-no sign
the agreement straight
sofa, Victoria spent half an hour drafting
assistant at the Langford
into supporting McNeil. Now, six years later, she found it laughable that she couldn't
at her computer for five full minutes before finally sending her application off to fifty
was applying for assistant manager
that, she closed her laptop and began making
you're free tomorrow,
she finished,
been looking at engagement
file and began flipping
Simms Miller's "close friends"-the
Victoria's private investigator had still managed to track them
matter how many women Simms dated, there was always one constant-a woman named
but
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