The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 211

Chapter 213

That night, Raymond's phone rang unexpectedly.

On the other end, a woman and child were sobbing, their cries punctuated by a man's hoarse, desperate pleas. His voice was raw with terror, cutting straight through the static.

"Mr. Carmichael, I'm begging you. I know I was wrong. Please let my family go.

The man's despair bled through the line. Raymond frowned slightly, the tone tickling something familiar in his memory, but he couldn't quite place it.

"1

A moment later, another voice came on, businesslike but edged with menace. "Mr. Carmichael, Easton got drunk tonight and started ranting about you outside our club. Our guys are at his place right now. Should we... send a message?"

The implication was clear, the threat cold and precise.

Easton?

heard the name, Raymond remembered. Just a traitor. He gave a soft, dismissive

ordered, his voice light

the words left his mouth, Easton's curses echoed in his

You'll get what's coming to

abruptly changed his mind. "Forget it.

cared about curses before. He'd always believed he'd never have a child. But now, with Citrine in his life-even if Easton's words were nothing more than drunken

man hesitated, then ventured cautiously, "Mr. Carmichael... is that really

is," Raymond

unpunished. Why was he suddenly letting Easton off the hook? Then again, the minds of powerful men were

arrived: Elbert Jensen's sixtieth birthday. The Carmichael and Jensen families had been close for generations,

days, but their deep roots and

entrenched in Havencrest's upper

father, Weston Carmichael, brought Citrine and

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