The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 26

I never imagined I'd end up in such a mess today.

As the clear, ringing confession echoed through the private room, Alicia's face shifted from shock to anger and back again.

"It was me. I called the police."

Citrine admitted it without hesitation.

Alicia's jaw clenched so tightly she looked like she might crack a tooth. Her voice trembled with fury as she spat out, "Now that you don't have the Iverson family behind you, aren't you scared of crossing the Chase family?"

Citrine arched an eyebrow, her tone cool. "If I wasn't afraid of the Iversons, why would I be scared of you?"

Alicia was laughably naïve.

Citrine had made it to twenty-eight in her last life-she hadn't grown up cowering in fear, and a high schooler's threats hardly rattled her.

Amelia's mother, Cindy Lawson, flinched when the police siren wailed outside. She clutched her little boy close, wrapping him up tightly before looking up at Citrine with trembling eyes. "Please, just tell the police it was a mistake," she pleaded, her voice barely above a whisper. "I know you and Amelia are good friends, but we're just ordinary people-we don't want any trouble. And Amelia's brother is still so young, he needs us..."

voice almost inaudible, her eyes

gaze steady and resolute. "Trust me,

then, two police

"Who called this in?"

hand and stepped

me. These people trashed this family's

officers, laying out the sequence

was taken down to the station. Because Citrine was a

out to Raymond

station, Citrine cooperated fully, giving her

she waited, Alicia's parents suddenly

that the other party wanted to settle for

agreed on the spot, signing the settlement papers

hand, they took their son and left the station,

as they were gone, Alicia shot Citrine a triumphant, taunting look. Johnnie Chase, Alicia's father, followed his daughter's gaze. He sized Citrine up, his

"A nobody like you thinks you can mess with