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.

her. “You saw me, huh?

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

short laugh. “Eastgate Lounge is huge. And that means I went to the bar because… what? You felt

tone. “Are you saying the Besnard family and the Clark family

shifted immediately: “The Besnard family and the

were long–established aristocratic houses in Stonebridge. Not quite on par with the Hawthornes–but far above the

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a rage the moment her parents didn’t believe her. She never got this far into a confrontation. But now? Sloane had changed. And she was harder

ever.

and enunciated clearly, “Jill and Cameron were with me tonight. Don’t tell me you

Samantha, voice sharp. “Is

long before it got this far. Caught off guard, under Marshall’s withering glare, she could only stammer, “I… I didn’t get

much as he spoiled Samantha, that

slandering your sister?” he barked. “You’re grounded until the semester starts.

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