Wed to the Billionaire Brother of My Spouse by Doris

Chapter 566: Claire Still Dares to Kill

Jasmine was floored for a hot minute before she snapped back. Annabelle bit the dust in a car crash?

"Just bailed from the Douglas fam and bam, car crash? Looks like Annabelle outlived her usefulness and knew too much," Ethan said, getting the same news that Annabelle got mowed down by a car.

Annabelle had some smarts, but it was just small-time stuff. She thought she could stir the pot between Claire and Howard. Sure, she did that, but Claire got what she wanted and wasn't about to let her walk away.

Claire was cold as ice. Offing people was like a bad habit for her; once she started, she couldn't stop. She dodged the law once and went full rogue.

She figured she had a million ways to make it look clean. A car accident? Perfect cover. After hanging up, Jasmine looked at Ethan. "Annabelle had schemed for ages, and this is where it got her."

"Messing with shady folks and teaming up with the dangerous ones, she should've seen this coming the day she decided to play dirty," Ethan said, shaking his head, not even a bit shocked.

Annabelle just didn't have the chops to go up against heavyweights like Howard and Claire.

She was green, no street smarts.

Jasmine nodded. Regular folks couldn't hang with Claire and Howard. "Their game is too cutthroat."

Back in the day, Claire was half the reason Jasmine ended up behind bars.

"To take down people like them, you gotta be even more ruthless," Ethan said, dishing

out some porridge for Jasmine. "We need to hit 'em where it hurts."

It was a timeless truth: To kill a snake, you had to nail it right, or it would bite back.

So, you had to stay cool, endured the crap, and striked when it counted.

Jasmine always got that.

Those five years in the slammer, she had no will to live, but Connor gave her a reason to keep going.

Protect Justin, Richard, and everything she cared about.

She had to be strong to protect her people. Back then, she had no family backing and

a sketchy rep. To get strong, she had to lean on others.

the protector Connor had picked for her

up. Sometimes, life was a gamble; win or lose, it was all or

hadn't shown up, and Annabelle kept pretending to be

can't mess with others, and they can't mess with us," Ethan

their own

'You gotta be able to stand on your

meant

If one went down, the other was

the final showdown, they'd throw everything

him, and Jasmine wouldn't handle the

eyes,

strong and learn

she wasn't sweating over herself; she was more

Cunningham family's got better security. I'll have Liam and Tom keep an eye on you. It's time to throw down," Ethan said, heading back to the

the Douglas family, he had

for the complete experience

Achilles' heel. I'll handle myself." Jasmine nodded. Jasmine knew if Howard couldn't get to

wasn't nuts enough to mess with them, so he'd

lot, thank

radar. Jasmine was super

the office as much as

my weak spot."

wasn't a liability; liabilities were for the weak. He

would protect his people his

nodded, leaning on Ethan's

morning, the Douglas

waiting for Ethan to reclaim his shares and make his

Daniel were

there, smug as a cat that got the

Ethan could snag William's shares, but

hand everything over

enough firepower to go toe-to-toe

to help Daniel build connections, score resources, and

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