The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 410

Citrine fell silent for a long moment after the question, her eyes tinged with an

unmistakable regret. Finally, she pressed her lips together and said softly, "I'm just not suited to stay in the service anymore."

"Why?" Hastings asked.

Her voice was calm, almost distant. "I can't give the unit my undivided attention anymore."

Someone consumed by vengeance doesn't deserve to hold a gun.

Citrine didn't want to discuss it further and turned her gaze out the window, ending the conversation. Hastings recognized her reluctance and didn't press.

Kali Glenwood was in a state of panic. The brother who used to dote on her more than anyone was becoming increasingly distant, slipping out of her control. Desperate, she'd recently hired someone to tail Hastings.

informant messaged with an update: Hastings was out having

followed. In them, Hastings and Citrine sat side by side. Citrine was chatting with the others, oblivious, while Hastings watched her

nearly filled the screen, Kali glared at it, her own expression twisting with

to get him to introduce her to his comrades? Even after

stewed, the darker her mood grew. She was just about to smash something her

across the room and grabbing Kali's arm like she owned

taken him in as a child. Since Scales had raised Dick

Dick had shown up out of the

had never met her new aunt and a cousin two years her junior. Kali took an instant dislike to them. They reeked of poverty, of people who'd never seen

with an obvious look

face froze for a

an adopted

depended on the Glenwoods, so she swallowed her anger and dropped her hand.