Chapter 2052

After Cecilia left the detention wing, Norman fell into step just behind her, his briefcase clutched like a shield.

"Could you draft a settlement agreement? I want the court to consider a light sentence for Scorpius."

"Of course," Norman replied with a single, solemn nod.

They slid into the back seat of the sedan, doors thudding shut against the gray afternoon.

Cecilia leaned back, eyelids sliding down as fatigue pooled behind her eyes and darkness swirled, merciful and silent.

Time blurred until her phone shrilled. She jerked awake, glanced at the screen, and saw it was the director of the psychiatric hospital calling.

"Hello? What is it?"

"Ms. Smith, the patient named Stella Ross insists on seeing you. How would you like us to proceed?"

Cecilia's lips curved, the smile cold enough to frost glass.

"Still pretending she's unstable, is she?"

"She seems far more lucid now-probably dropped the act," the director answered.

"Understood."

She had assumed Stella could keep the charade alive indefinitely. Apparently, the walls of a psychiatric ward were rougher than the fantasy she'd woven for herself.

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in the eye and take the measure of

little to her now-hardly more than

she had not forgotten the

met her reckoning. Perhaps Stella's turn had

the air smelled of

trembling on a vinyl couch, bandages and bruises mottling every inch of exposed

voice shaking so hard each syllable barely

measured smile. "Ms. Smith said she is on her

ward like a pebble tossed into

title, and jealousy flared

bitter

thriving now, isn't

muttered. s


blown out the candle behind them. You thought playing insane would buy you time, a quiet hideaway. Instead, every hour in this place has been a slow, exquisite torture. Jail might be

leaned close to a nurse and spoke under his breath. "So she is faking after

"Exactly. She never once seemed like

hurried up the corridor. "Director-Ms.

"Understood."

the director strode off to greet her

all, was a friend of Zachary-the

over her was the safest insurance

sedan that had just

clicking on the concrete. "Where's Stella

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