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.

messaged with an update: Hastings was

In them, Hastings and Citrine sat side by side. Citrine was chatting

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

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 refused to let her meet them. Yet somehow, he'd

about to smash something her hand already gripping the vase on her nightstand when

shopping!" Jeanette Iverson burst in, bouncing across the room and grabbing Kali's

but only by adoption. Scales Glenwood, the family patriarch, had taken him in as a child. Since Scales had raised Dick

ill, Dick had shown up out of

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

hand with

froze

think she is, anyway? Just an adopted daughter of the

her thoughts to herself. Her family's future depended on the Glenwoods, so she swallowed her anger and dropped her hand. That's when she noticed Kali's