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?"

bit her lip and shook her head in

didn't." "Look at yourself, Jasmine. How low will you stoop for money and status? Would you stoop to any man?" Daniel

she had been the treasured jewel

she 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 reflection in

would plead and cry,

come

this book for free. Don't

by

evident in his tone, even as

Jasmine was trembling all

died once already in prison because she was bullied by those around her. And now,

shield him from the sights and sounds. "Don't be scared,

Daniel recoiled, revulsion etched into his every move. "What do you think I'd do to you? Just look at yourself in 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 her

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him, Daniel couldn't fathom why

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