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."
the master bedroom she shared with
nightstand lay a share transfer agreement she'd secretly signed
home? The document hadn't budged from its spot-no
and on her way back downstairs, she tossed the agreement
on the sofa, Victoria spent half an hour
aside from her two years as McNeil's assistant at the Langford
Now, six years
full minutes before finally sending her application off to
was applying for assistant manager
her laptop and began making phone
you're free tomorrow, let's meet
as she finished, Yasmine
been looking at engagement rings lately-he even took someone to a boutique to custom order a
file and began flipping
friends"-the women he'd
Victoria's private investigator had
there was always
in Starfall City, but in a town two hundred miles
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