The Woman From Hell

Back at Green Orange, I still had not snapped out of what happened earlier and sat in my seat in a daze.

Shannon's curses filled my ears. "Just what the hell did Marius do? It's much too contriving even for him to betray us temporarily to help the Yards.

"What do you think Marius was thinking? Could he be mad because of his one-sided love?"

"Shannon." I could not really listen to any more of it and opened my mouth to stop her.

Shannon looked at me. As if understanding what I was feeling, she just sighed and stopped.

I could not figure out why Marius would do this either.

"Let's put this matter aside for now. It's a foregone conclusion. Since we've now obtained the development rights to North Courts, we'll make the best use of it. The land is still very valuable despite it being higher than the market price. Fortunately, we stopped the loss in time since the Yards had no intention of continuing to raise the price."

Tyler was right. If the Yards had continued to bid, the consequences would have been disastrous.

"Come to think of it now, Silas is truly a sly fox." Slowly recovering, I started analyzing the situation as a whole. "He didn't care about North Courts. He wasn't even thinking about fulfilling my mother's last wish. It was all a lie."

He intentionally created the idea that he so badly the land in North Courts to implant the notion. Silas kept not only me but also the others in the dark so that our competitiveness for North Courts' land would naturally increase. He pushed me into thinking that he wanted that piece of land so that I would fall into his trap step by step.

Silas had Marius' help in all of this. Without Marius, Silas could not have possibly captured my thoughts every step of the way.

trusted Marius too much. That was how Silas had

night

Wanda Lane. Don't

thoughts were racing, Brian's voice sounded outside the door. He

signaling for them to

door, Brian trotted in. Shannon looked worried and refused to leave, but I nodded to

pointed at my

expression furious. "I

underestimated you, Wanda Lane.

persuade me to give

development rights et

you

got them

impressive of you!"

to let the land go now that it

to his irascibility,

came out of the bidders meeting and haven't collected my thoughts yet. You have

a fool. What do