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."

upstairs and returned to the master bedroom she shared

transfer agreement she'd secretly signed

home? The

way back downstairs, she tossed the agreement straight into the fireplace, watching as the flames

on the sofa, Victoria spent half an hour

years as McNeil's assistant at the Langford

all her intellect and skill into supporting McNeil. Now, six years later, she found it laughable that she

her computer for five full minutes before finally sending her application off to fifty

applying for assistant

her laptop and began making

free tomorrow,

as she finished,

engagement rings lately-he even took someone to a boutique to custom order

began flipping through

a list of Simms Miller's "close friends"-the women

but Victoria's private investigator had still managed to track

there was always

Starfall City, but in a town

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