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."

and returned to the master bedroom

agreement she'd secretly signed

last came home? The document hadn't budged from its spot-no

the agreement straight into the fireplace, watching as

the sofa, Victoria spent half an hour

from her two years as McNeil's assistant at the Langford Group six years ago, there was little else

intellect and skill into supporting McNeil. Now, six years later, she found it laughable that she couldn't point to a single noteworthy accomplishment

five full minutes

applying for assistant

closed her laptop

you're free tomorrow,

she finished, Yasmine

requested. Mr. Miller has been looking at engagement rings lately-he even took someone to a boutique to custom order a

took the file and began flipping through it, page by

"close friends"-the women he'd been

frequently, but Victoria's private investigator had still managed to track them

dated, there

didn't even live in Starfall City, but in a

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