Chapter 37 Marshall the Opportunist

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“And what else?” Sloane’s eyes cut sharply toward Samantha, her tone like ice. “Go on, say it.”

Marshall sat on the sofa, his face dark enough to drip ink. With a loud crack, he hurled the glass in his hand to the floor. The sound of shattering echoed harshly in the quiet living room.

“Sloane, what kind of attitude is this? Do you even see me as your father?”

Father? Sloane rolled her eyes. “Spit it out if you’ve got something to say. Don’t waste my sleep.”

-did you go partying at the Eastgate

“You-!” Marshall’s fury flared. “Tell me- Lounge bar tonight with a bunch of shady people?”

“I did not.”

“You’re still lying? Sammy saw you there herself!” Helen shot up from the couch the moment she heard Sloane deny it.

Sloane’s gaze slid coldly to Samantha. So that’s who locked the balcony door earlier.

saw me, huh? Where

admitted she saw Sloane inside the bar, that would mean she had been inside too. “I was outside, at the entrance

a short laugh. “Eastgate Lounge is huge. And that means I

gleamed as she mimicked Samantha’s usual coy tone. “Are you saying the Besnard family and the Clark family

expression shifted immediately: “The Besnard family and the

aristocratic houses in Stonebridge. Not quite on par with the Hawthornes–but far

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heart sank. This was bad. In the past, Sloane would’ve flown into a rage the moment her parents didn’t believe her.

ever.

with me tonight. Don’t tell me you didn’t

Samantha,

before it got this far. Caught off guard, under Marshall’s withering glare, she could only stammer,

Marshall needed to hear. As much as he spoiled Samantha, that only went as far as

sister?” he

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