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.

update: Hastings was out

by side. Citrine was chatting with the others, oblivious, while Hastings watched her the

until Citrine's face nearly filled the screen, Kali glared

this manipulative woman do to deserve Hastings' attention? What kind of tricks had she pulled to get him to introduce her to his comrades? Even after Kali had pleaded again and again, Hastings had

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

in, bouncing across the room and grabbing Kali's arm

patriarch, had taken him in as a child. Since Scales had raised Dick Glenwood himself, he'd always shown this adopted son

Dick had shown up out of the blue, bringing

and daughter Kali had never met her new aunt and a cousin two years her junior. Kali took an instant dislike to

Jeanette's hand with an obvious look

face froze

she think she is, anyway? Just an adopted

depended on the Glenwoods, so she swallowed her anger and dropped her hand. That's when she