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."

headed upstairs and returned to the master bedroom

transfer agreement she'd secretly signed with the old man some

home? The document hadn't budged from

her way back downstairs, she tossed the agreement straight into the

on the sofa, Victoria spent half an hour drafting

McNeil's assistant at the Langford

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

at her computer for five full minutes before

applying for

laptop and

you're free tomorrow, let's

she finished,

at engagement rings lately-he even took

file and began flipping through it, page

"close friends"-the

private investigator had

there was always

City, but in a town two

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