The Unshackled Queen: Never Say Never by Gilbert Soysal

Melina stepped back, her face ashen, and exclaimed in dismay, “It wasn’t me! I didn’t take the diamond!”

“If you didn’t steal it, then why was it found in your bag?” Hannah inquired with a nonchalant tone.

Thinking that if Melina enjoyed such deceit, she deserved to fall into the same snare!

“I… How should I know why it ended up in my bag…”

Before Melina could finish, her eyes widened in shock.

She pointed a trembling finger at Hannah and accused, “It was you! You planted the diamond in my bag to set me up! It had to be you!”

She quickly found an excuse and turned to face Master Murray.

“Master Murray, please believe me.

I didn’t steal your diamond! It was Hannah! She realized we were onto her, so she hid the diamond and slipped it into my bag to set me up!”

Master Murray remained silent, her eyes briefly flicking to the diamond on the table before returning to Melina with a look of disappointment.

A shiver ran down Melina’s spine, and she turned to glare at Hannah.

“You did this, didn’t you? Is it because of Bryson?”

to see a

intently, hoping for

Hannah wasn’t

blige them.

a smile and responded, “Miss Glyn, not everyone is as desperate for men as you

yet no diamond

when it turns up in yours, you

could I possibly have slipped the diamond

immediately, “It was when you had my bag! That’s when you

nonchalantly,

your bag in

could I have managed that without

“You! You!”

trickling down her

true, and everyone else’s is false?” Hannah

to escalate the situation,

seems I unknowingly left it

had taken

forgot to return

conversation with Miss Glyn and must have forgotten about the