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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