Chapter 9 Finding Her

"Mr. Douglas, we've found her." Liam, fresh off a phone call, turned to Ethan with excitement. "Felix confessed!"

Ethan snorted, the sarcasm biting. "Who?"

"It's Harper Brown, the heiress of the Brown family," Liam said, equally astonished. Harper had been dealing with depression and had a suicide attempt six years ago.

"It's coming back to me. Among the hotel guests that night, Harper's name was there. But she was on a different floor, so I didn't think much of it. Felix planned to meet another woman, but when he saw the heiress wander into the wrong room, he seized the opportunity."

Liam slapped his forehead, annoyed he hadn't made the connection earlier. "Miss Harper's suicide attempt was after that gala six years ago."

Ethan furrowed his brow. "Turn around. We're heading to the Brown estate."

...

Daniel looked at Jasmine with distaste, as if he couldn't believe she had turned into what she was now.

"I never really knew you," he realized, regretting his past blindness in thinking Jasmine was pure and kind-hearted. "Using even children in your schemes. What, now that you realize you can't have me, you're trying to seduce my brother because of his status in the Douglas family?"

lip and shook

behind her, Jasmine's eyes welled up as she pleaded. "Daniel... I didn't." "Look at yourself, Jasmine. How low will you stoop for money and status? Would you stoop to any man?" Daniel grasped her chin and pulled her in front of a mirror. Terrified, Jasmine closed her eyes. Those years in prison... the thing

upon a time, she had been the treasured jewel of the

was thrown in prison, she didn't fit in—especially since she was too pale, her skin so delicate it seemed it could bruise at the slightest touch. The other inmates would harass her during showers, hit her... force her to stare at her own bedraggled

and

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was abandoned by

spat out, disgust evident in his tone, even as he snatched at her clothes in front of the

you..." Jasmine was trembling all

she was bullied by

desperately to shield him from the sights and sounds. "Don't be scared, Justin;

the mirror, Jasmine. You reek of prison; you're no different from a beggar on the street. What man would desire you?" Jasmine stiffened; she clutched Justin tighter and covered his ears with all

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Jasmine crumble before him, Daniel couldn't fathom why he

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