When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 2052

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.

"Driver, to


to look Stella in the eye and take the measure of

of tangled grudges, Stella herself meant little to her

had not forgotten

her reckoning. Perhaps Stella's turn had

hospital, the air

and bruises mottling every inch of exposed skin. The director and a

Cecilia arrived yet?" Stella asked, voice shaking so hard each syllable barely survived

smile. "Ms. Smith said she is on

words "Ms. Smith" drifted through the ward like

and jealousy flared so hot

thin bitter

now,

muttered. s


though someone had blown out the candle behind them. You thought playing insane would buy you time, a quiet hideaway.

a nurse and spoke under his breath.

nodded briskly. "Exactly. She never once seemed like

up the corridor.

"Understood."

director strode off to greet her in

was a friend

her was the

rushed to the sleek sedan that had just

clicking on the

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